Many early german immigrants settled:

around sacramento, california
around miami, florida
around lancaster, pennsylvania
around san francisco, california

americans had many intangible advantages. well since the british fought a war far from home military orders, troops, and supplies sometimes took months to reach their destinations, and the british had an extremely difficult objective. they had to persuade the americans to give up their claims of independence, americans had a grand cause: fighting for their rights, their independence and their liberty. this cause is much more just than waging a war to deny independence.

it was on the rise and doing very well and would continue to do well until the great depression from 1929-1939

it may be touching on the issue of over sexualizing all women