Mr-TM As far as I know, there was a vote after the War of Independence in the USA whether English or German should be the official language and it turned out very narrowly for English.
That is blown way out of proportion. The USA were former British colonies filled with former British subjects. Pretty much everyone who played an important role in the founding of the USA was a native English speaker who knew more French than German.
As far as I know, the vote was about something much more trivial, like whether for official government proclamations in some county or city, the German version should hold equal weight to the English version or something like that. The idea that the entire USA would be speaking German if not for some close margin of vote is just silly.
