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Originally Posted by bossabreezes
I'm highly suspicious that these German speaking states are not correct.
German immigration to the US stopped like at least 100 years ago. Plus, those western states were never huge German centers.
I'd suspect that almost all of these states have either a Chinese language or possibly an Indian subcontinent based language as their third most spoken.
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Ohio has a large population of Amish, and most of them speak the German dialect of Pennsylvania Dutch at home. And the far western edge of the state is still highly isolated German-American communities and it's probably not anyone's first language but I'm sure there's still some sporadic usage of it.
Cleveland also has a reasonably-sized proportion of Germans who fled to the US after WWII ended and the Communists started to move in.