New York has the most Italians in America. Most Italians immigrants were from Southern Italy, like Naples and Sicily. Nebraska is mainly German.
German and Irish, sir; there's dispute about which of the two's the greater.
At the same time, Nebraska boasts the highest
percentage of those of Danish derivation, which probably accounts for our tallness. A diet heavy in dairy and eggs helps even the non-Danish soar.
Now, if I thought like a primitive, I'd
expect that the rest of the world be tall too, just like mine, and that if they aren't, there's something wrong with them. In fact, when I moved to Pennsylvania after graduation from college, I was surprised to notice how short Pennsylvanians tend to be; I was about a head taller than most of them.
Around here, in this specific five-county area (a few thousand people per county), the majority are of, oddly, Swiss derivation. It's odd because the Swiss, unlike most other Europeans, never made a big deal about coming to America. Some did, but not in any great numbers.
I've never seen or heard the phenomenon, but I wonder if one might hear yodeling in the Sandhills. dutch508 at the other end of the Sandhills, 350 miles west of me, might know, as his area was also similarly settled by those rare Swiss immigrants. Not German, not Austrian, not Prussian, not Bavarian, but specifically Swiss.
I have yet to see anyone wearing
lederhosen though.
