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A Jetstar pilot reveals what really goes on inside the cockpit
By Admin, November 21, 2018 in Commercial Discussions
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"Do you really know what all those buttons do?"
Call me simple, but that's the question I've always wanted to ask an airline pilot. That and, how hard is it to land one of these things? And when is it time for passengers to start panicking? Recently, I had the chance to ask these very questions of Brett Manders, a former naval officer turned commercial pilot for Jetstar, who flies Boeing 787 Dreamliners across the world. Here's what he had to say.
Why did you get into commercial flying?
I remember going out to Tullamarine airport as a kid, when they had a viewing platform there, and I was just gobsmacked at the planes. Just the sense of adventure, that you could go anywhere in the world on these things. From that day on I always wanted to be a pilot.
How much training did you have to go through?
It was a solid 12 months of study to get a commercial license. Then it was another several years before I got into an airline, when I joined Jetstar in 2009. I've since flown several different aircraft, and at the moment I'm training the next generation of pilots on the Dreamliner.
What do you think would surprise people about your job?
People probably think it's a lot more glamorous than it is. Certainly going to Hawaii in the depths of a Melbourne winter is fantastic, but we fly all night, you get there, you sleep for a little bit, you get up, go out for dinner, try to go to the beach, sleep and fly back. You're only there for enough time to get jet-lagged and then come home.
What's your day-to-day schedule like?
My monthly roster is a mix of training new pilots, and I get a couple of flights a month to some of the more desirable destinations: Hawaii, Bali, Singapore, Bangkok, Phuket, Japan.
Do you have a favourite plane to fly?
Every pilot's favourite aeroplane is the one they're flying at the moment, but the Dreamliner is fantastic. It's super high-tech and modern, the cockpit looks really space-aged. It's a beautiful machine.
Do you really know what every button in the cockpit does?
Absolutely! They're all grouped into similar areas – all the electrics are in one area, all the fuel stuff is in one area… When you do your training you do several weeks of computer-based modules to learn about all the buttons, and then there's another month and a half of training in the simulator before you even get to the aeroplane. When you're doing it every day it becomes second nature.
How much of a part does autopilot play?
Autopilot is a great tool, but it's always under our control, we're always telling it what to do. You know with cruise control in a car, you'd always have your foot ready on the brake just in case? That's what we're doing. Autopilot can do something like fly straight and level a lot better than a human can, because it's not prone to fatigue, it's a lot quicker at doing calculations, but it's all what we tell it to do. We do practise doing automatic landings, so when the weather is bad we do practise it. That's dependent upon the airline, the airport and the regulator. But every take-off is done manually, there's no such thing as an auto take-off.
Could I land a plane in an emergency?
The first thing you would need to do is work out how to use the radios. Given enough time, and depending on how technically minded you were – say if you're an iPhone user and you could jump across to a Samsung – it's possible. You could be talked down. But you'd need to be able to do an automatic landing, and not every airport can do that. A manual landing could be done, but there would be an immense amount of pressure … It's more a Hollywood script than a possibility.
Have you ever been scared on a flight?
Have you ever eaten airline food? I wouldn't say I've ever been scared in a commercial airliner. When I was doing training in light aircraft, I did some aerobatic training, and my stomach wasn't so keen on that. I also had to stop an engine in-flight and start it again. In a light aircraft you scare yourself a bit, but that's part of the training.
When is it time for passengers to start panicking?
The only time passengers need to panic is before the flight if they're running late, and afterwards at the baggage carousel if their bags don't come out. On the flight, I always try to reiterate, we're all highly trained, and we've got skin in the game, we've all got family and friends we want to get home to. The best thing you can do if you're afraid of flying is let the crew know you're nervous when you get on board, and they'll keep an eye on you.
Do you have a favourite airport?
Honolulu is pretty cool on take-off. It's a beautiful, smooth runway, and you do an early turn and fly over the beach at Waikiki, which is pretty nice. You're disappointed to be leaving, but it's a pretty spectacular departure.
How about a least favourite airport?
Probably any airport where air traffic control tell you they're going to give you a delay straight after you've told the passengers what time they're going to arrive. It makes it look like we don't know what we're doing. But it's the nature of the industry with such busy air routes, it doesn't take much to slow things down.
Any time a flight is delayed, you always hear the captain say they're "just finishing off the paperwork". What is all this paperwork?
We have a phrase: the bigger the aeroplane, the bigger the paperwork. There are three main parts to the paperwork. The first is the fuel. We have to make sure we have the right fuel. We might plan the fuel load we need in tonnes, but the airport refueller might refuel in US gallons, and they might bill us in pounds. So you obviously want to make sure that's right. The next one is the passengers and freight, we have to make sure we have the correct amount of passengers on board, and we also need to know where the passengers and the freight is distributed throughout the plane. The final item is the tech log. You know when you have your car serviced, the service rep will fill out the log book? It's pretty much the exact same thing, except that gets filled out before every flight.
What's the strangest that's happened on one of your flights?
This isn't so much strange as funny. You know when you have a flight that isn't very full, the cabin crew makes an announcement that you have to stay in your allotted seat until the seatbelt sign has gone off? We had this one guy, when the light went off he hopped up and walked down to business class and put himself up there. I thought that was pretty funny. They've since changed the PA announcement.


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Q: Suppression State Error LNK1104 cannot open file 'IlmImfd.lib' I seem to have an error with the linking part even though my code compiled with no errors.
I set the property like this:

I also added files required in the
Linker -> General -> Additional library directories  and
Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies
It still gave me an error after that.
code:
#include "opencv2/core.hpp"
#include "C:/Users/Downloads/opencv_contrib-master/opencv_contrib-master/modules/face/include/opencv2/face.hpp"
#include "opencv2/highgui.hpp"
#include "opencv2/imgproc.hpp"
#include "opencv2/objdetect.hpp"

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <sstream>

using namespace cv;
using namespace cv::face;
using namespace std;

(output) error line:
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error LNK1104 cannot open file 'IlmImfd.lib'    opencvTry

(output) when I try to redo the project with the same codes with the lib files included:
Severity    Code    Description Project File    Line    Suppression State
Error   LNK2019 unresolved external symbol "public: static struct
cv::Ptr<class cv::face::FisherFaceRecognizer> __cdecl
cv::face::FisherFaceRecognizer::create(int,double)" (
create@FisherFaceRecognizer@face@cv@@SA?AU?
$Ptr@VFisherFaceRecognizer@face@cv@@@3@HN@Z) referenced in function main
opencvTry   C:\Users\151554F\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Projects\In
progress\Face recog\opencvTry\try.obj   1

Severity    Code    Description Project File    Line    Suppression State
Error   LNK2019 unresolved external symbol "public: int __cdecl
cv::face::FaceRecognizer::predict(class cv::_InputArray const &)const " (?
predict@FaceRecognizer@face@cv@@QEBAHAEBV_InputArray@3@@Z) referenced in
function main   opencvTry   C:\Users\151554F\Documents\Visual Studio
2017\Projects\In progress\Face recog\opencvTry\try.obj  1

A: You probably added the correct include directories, but you forgot to link the actual libraries.
Under Configuration Properties - Linker - General - Additional Library Directories you need to add the following:
$(OPENCV_DIR)\staticlib;
With OPENCV_DIR pointing to your build folder.
For example: E:\opencv\build\x86\vc12.
After you've done that, you also need to add the lines below here under Common Properties - Linker - Input - Additional Dependencies
IlmImfd.lib
libjasperd.lib
libpngd.lib
libjpegd.lib
libtiffd.lib
libwebpd.lib
opencv_calib3d300d.lib
opencv_core300d.lib
opencv_features2d300d.lib
opencv_flann300d.lib
opencv_hal300d.lib
opencv_highgui300d.lib
opencv_imgcodecs300d.lib
opencv_imgproc300d.lib
opencv_ml300d.lib
opencv_objdetect300d.lib
opencv_photo300d.lib
opencv_shape300d.lib
opencv_stitching300d.lib
opencv_superres300d.lib
opencv_ts300d.lib
opencv_video300d.lib
opencv_videoio300d.lib
opencv_videostab300d.lib
zlibd.lib
ippicvmt.lib
comctl32.lib
vfw32.lib

You only need to add the ones you need, but there's no negative side at adding them all. Then, you're sure you didn't forget anything.

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Pasta salad is an essential summer staple. Highlight freshly picked summer produce with this easy tomato basil tortellini salad.
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Delicious as a side or as the main star of dinner. Actual summer temperatures not necessary to enjoy.
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In a world in which search has become ubiquitous, most of us are familiar with the experience of getting back less than satisfactory (also known as completely irrelevant) search results. What would you ask your search engine if your initial query—say, cam procedure shoulder—doesn't return results you like? Sure, you could go through a list of the top 100 million queries currently being asked on Bing to see which ones might be better. Just make sure you've got a spare three years without sleeping or eating to do it. And that assumes it only takes you a single second to read through each query.
Seriously. Who's got that kind of time to data mine?
Fortunately, you and your sore shoulder can breathe a sigh of relief regarding those three hungry, sleepless years. A team from Microsoft decided to take an innovative run at these very real and challenging problems. Indeed, their solution, one that is turning heads at the 12thAnnual ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining – WSDM 2019 in Melbourne – demonstrates that the aforementioned task can be performed in—wait for it—milliseconds.
"Multi-label classification is the science of building algorithms that can answer multiple choice questions involving uncertainty when there could be multiple correct answers," explained Manik Varma, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India, who led the team. Varma likens the problem to ordering a family meal at a restaurant from a menu of choices—you need to determine which subset of dishes from the menu will be the most satisfying within the given budget. This can be a much harder problem to solve than traditional multi-class classification, where one would only have to choose a single dish from the menu. And so, despite decades of research, computer scientists were only able to tackle problems involving a small number of choices; there was no hope of even thinking about query recommendation on a search engine as a multi-label classification task.
Enter extreme classification. "A mere half-decade ago, multi-label algorithms could barely scale to questions involving five thousand choices," recalls Himanshu Jain, co-author on the WSDM paper and Varma's PhD student at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi who interned at Microsoft. That was then. In 2013, Varma's team published a paper that exploded the number of choices that could be considered from five thousand to ten million. This changed the nature of the game and led to the establishment of a new research area in machine learning called extreme classification. Extreme classification deals with multi-class and multi-label problems involving an extremely large number of choices. Since then, extreme classification has opened a new paradigm for ranking and recommendation applications, such as suggesting related queries on a search engine.
"The whole notion of what constitutes a good answer changes when going from a thousand choices to a million choices" explained Varma. And indeed, many new research questions arise at this scale that the machine learning community had not looked at traditionally. For example, the traditional paradigm in supervised learning is to assume that there exists an expert who can provide the right answers for questions that can be used for evaluating the performance of an algorithm or for hyper-parameter tuning. "Unfortunately, no human expert in the world can go through a list of 10 million choices to mark out all the correct answers," explained Varma. As a result of this, only partial answers for each question exist at the extreme scale, thereby allowing even the most fundamental machine learning techniques, such as cross-validation, to potentially go awry. These new research questions, coupled with high-impact ranking and recommendation applications, have made extreme classification a hot area of research in both academia and industry. "The extreme classification community has made remarkable progress over the last six years. Papers on extreme classification have been published in diverse conferences including AAAI, AISTATS, ICML, IJCAI, KDD, NIPS, SIGIR, WSDM, WWW and others, improving the prediction accuracy on a benchmark task from 19% in 2013 to 65% today," observed Varma.
Unfortunately, the technical challenge in extreme classification is to not just increase the prediction accuracy but to also reduce the training time, prediction time and model size. The time required for training the classifiers is one of the biggest issues in extreme classification. "In 2013, training our tree-based extreme classifier, called MLRF, on a Wikipedia-sized dataset took seven hours on a cluster of a thousand cores, which was simply unacceptable at Bing's scale," explained Varma. A new algorithm had to be developed.
They decided to call it Slice.
Slice stands for Scalable LInear extreme ClassifiErs and it can be more than ten thousand times faster to train than MLRF. Ten. Thousand. Times. The algorithm accurately and efficiently scales to problems involving 100 million labels and 240 million training points, blowing the doors off the scaling capabilities of all other classifiers in the world. Slice learns a linear classifier per label but cuts down training and prediction costs from linear to logarithmic in the number of labels. It does so by leveraging the observation that only a small number of labels, say logarithmic, are active in any given region of feature space. Given a test point, it quickly determines which region of feature space it belongs to based on approximate nearest neighbor search. It then evaluates the classifiers for only the labels active in the region thereby incurring just logarithmic prediction costs. During training, given N points in D dimensions with L labels, Slice reduces training costs from O(NDL) to O(ND log L) by training each linear classifier on only O((N log L)/L) of the hardest negative examples rather than all O(N) negative examples. This is achieved via a novel negative sub-sampling technique based on a generative model approximation of the discriminative linear classifier. The technique is particularly effective for low-dimensional deep learning features for which it can efficiently sub-sample a few hundred of the hardest negatives from hundreds of millions of points without losing accuracy.
Extreme classification opens a new paradigm for thinking about ranking and recommendation problems. By treating each item to be ranked or recommended as a separate label, we can learn an extreme classifier that takes the user's feature vector as input, predicts the subset of relevant labels as output and then return the items corresponding to the predicted labels to the user either as a recommended bag or as a ranked list, depending on the application. Reformulating the problem this way can, in certain cases, lead to serious improvements in results over traditional collaborative filtering, learning-to-rank or content-based approaches to ranking and recommendation.
Take again the aforementioned task of recommending related queries on the Bing search engine. If you treat each of the top 100 million queries on Bing as a separate label, take the user query as input, and predict the relevant subset of 100 million labels (queries) as output, this is an extreme classification reformulation of your query recommendation problem.
Shaping the problem this way lets Bing make more relevant recommendations with a 12 percent improvement in the success rate for tail queries thereby allowing millions of users to complete their tasks more efficiently.
Going back to the query we opened the article with—cam procedure shoulder (a query about comprehensive arthroscopic management shoulder surgery), Bing in the past returned irrelevant suggestions such as the shoulder surgery of football quarterback Cam Newton. Now, as far as we're concerned Cam can do no wrong—not after that insane fourth quarter comeback against the Eagles in Week 7. But using Slice, Bing quickly realized that Cam Newton was a negative hit for this search query and returned much more relevant and accurate responses. Indeed, Slice can surpass state-of-the-art query recommendation techniques by at least 10 percent. Furthermore, when flighted as part of Bing's related searches capability, Slice increased the number of queries for which at least eight recommendations were being made by 52 percent and the number of suggestions per query by 33 percent. Slice has something in common with Cam Newton after all: killer stats.
Looking beyond search and information retrieval, extreme classification can also have applications in computational advertising, recommender systems, computer vision and even natural language processing. For instance, you could use extreme classification to predict which word was going to be typed next on Bing. Or, you could use it to recognize the stranger you bumped into at the conference. Or, you might even use it to recommend which music track you should listen to next. And, of course, extreme classification is already being used by millions of people around the world to more effectively find and purchase the goods and services that they are looking for through the Bing Ads system.
Extreme classification opens new approaches and unique applications anytime you have hundreds of millions of things to classify—which these days is pretty frequently. But it also opens up new vistas in research and begs the question, what other problems, reformulated as extreme classification, might we now have a better shot at solving?
Interested? I should hope so. Seriously, Varma and his team at Microsoft and IIT Delhi encourage anyone to dive into The Extreme Classification Repository containing code, datasets, metrics, benchmark results and publications and they look forward to seeing what you might come up with.
The post Everything you always wanted to know about extreme classification (but were afraid to ask) appeared first on Microsoft Research.
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William Moon was born 5 November 1829 in Mountfield, Brighton, Sussex, England, son of Jesse (John) Moon and Ann Ralph. He immigrated to Sydney, Australia, with his parents and siblings, arriving on 17 March 1839 by the vessel 'Prince Regent'. He married Harriet Baker (1834-1889) on 14 September 1853 in Sydney, NSW, according to the rites of the Wesleyan Church and they had 7 children. William Moon was accidentally killed on 20 March 1871 at Sans Souci, NSW, following the discharge of a gun while duck shooting. He was buried in the Old Wesleyan Section at Rookwood Cemetery. He left no Will, however after letters of administration his estate and assets were assessed at £4,200. He lived at Wellington Street, Waterloo. His brothers David Moon and Thomas Moon were also aldermen for Waterloo Council.
William Moon was often engaged in professional clay pigeon shooting matches. During Moon's first term as Mayor in 1868 the business of Council was largely preoccupied with laying down the basic infrastructure of Waterloo municipality, particularly the extension of Elizabeth Street.
William Moon was an alderman on Waterloo Council in 1863-71, representing North Ward. He was mayor in 1868 and 1870-71. William Moon resigned in January 1871.


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Q: Responsive header with text and button I am making a simple header with text and a button but when I go on mobile everything isn't responsive . I tried using %'s but nothing was working. And my CSS jumps up and down when I scroll on mobile. This is the codepen, https://codepen.io/Religion/pen/ZEQerQZ. Below is the CSS . HTML you can check on the codepen due to the post saying it's mostly code.
CSS:
@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) {
.header1{
  padding: 15%;
  text-align: center;

  background-image: url('https://manchesterdental.org/img/dentalimg/welcomenote.jpg');
   background-position: center center;
  background-size: cover;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  color: white;
  font-size: 30px;
  position: relative;

}
.header-text1 h2{
  margin-top:20%;
  font-size:1.8rem;
  width:45vh;
  margin-left:-20%;
  color:white;

}
.header-text1 p{

    font-size:1.1rem;
  width:44vh;
  margin-left:-20%;
  padding-top:40px;
  color:white;
  font-weight: 500;

}
.header-text{
   position: absolute;
   bottom:0;
   left:0;

   width:1px;

}
.button {
  background-color: #00aeef; /* Green */

  color: black;
  padding: 15px 32px;
  text-align: center;
  text-decoration: none;
  display: inline-block;
  font-size: 16px;
  margin: 4px 2px;
  cursor: pointer;
  -webkit-transition-duration: 0.4s; /* Safari */
  transition-duration: 0.4s;
  margin-left: 2%;
  width:95%;
  margin-bottom: 20px;

}
}

@media (min-width:900px) {
  .header1{
  padding: 60px;
  text-align: center;

  background-image: url("{% static 'dentist/img/bg-img/header.jpg' %}");
   background-position: center center;
  background-size: cover;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  color: white;
  font-size: 30px;
  height:80vh;

}
.header-text1 h2{
  margin-top:10%;
  color:white;
font-size: 3rem;

}
.header-text1 p{
 padding-top:40px;
 font-size:1.5rem;
 max-width:80%;
 margin-left:10%;

  color:white;
  font-weight: 500;

}
.button {
  background-color: #00aeef; /* Green */

  color: black;
  padding: 15px 32px;
  text-align: center;
  text-decoration: none;
  display: inline-block;
  font-size: 16px;
  margin: 4px 2px;
  cursor: pointer;
  -webkit-transition-duration: 0.4s; /* Safari */
  transition-duration: 0.4s;
  margin-left: 2%;
  width:45%;
  font-family: "Comic Sans MS", cursive, sans-serif;
  font-weight:800;

}
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HTML:

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A: You are currently setting the margin-top property to 20% of the height of the button itself.
If you want the margin to respond to the width of the viewport, then use something like:
margin-top: 2vw; // 2% of the viewport width

However, for the margin-top property, I suggest using the height of the viewport like so:
margin-top: 1vh; // 1% of the viewport height (1% should be enough)

A: To keep the text elements centered in the div, you can make use of flexbox. Simply add the following code to the top of your CSS file before the media queries:
.header-text1 {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  justify-content: center;

  width: 100%;

}
Also, no need to include this with your media queries since flexbox will handle everything regardless of viewport size.
This Codepen had the updated code - also changed the second media query so that the CSS doesn't break between 767px and 900px like it did before.


The Indian Army rescued as many as 150 stranded tourists in North Sikkim on Wednesday evening amidst heavy snowfall and sub-zero temperatures.
"We rescued stranded tourists amidst heavy snowfall in North Sikkim. Unprecedented snowfall in a span of two hours had cut off the popular tourist destinations in Lachung Valley, rendering the tourists helpless. The troops of Trishakti Corps immediately launched Quick Reaction Teams (QRT) including medical staff to locate the tourists in stranded vehicles, provide medical care and bring them to the nearest army camps," said a senior official of the Army Eastern Command.
Army jawans launched rescue operations and reached out to all stranded persons. Among the stranded tourists, there were some elderly people and children who complained of dizziness, breathlessness and other high altitude related symptoms. A woman with the fractured hand was given immediate medical care.
"All rescued tourists are being provided, food, shelter and medical care at the army camps keeping in view the unabated snowfall and temperatures dipping down to minus 10 degrees," added the officer.
Sources in the Army say that rescue and search operations will continue through the night to locate any other tourist who may have been stranded in the area.
This is the second such rescue operation carried out in this winter. On December 28, 2018, Indian Army soldiers evacuated over 3000 stranded tourists from Nathula area in the biggest ever rescue operation carried out in Sikkim.


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September 5, 2013 / JayMan
Germania's Seed?
albion's seed, american nations, dusk in autumn, germany, hajnal line, hbd chick, nazis, regional differences
Edited, 4/11/15 3/17/14. See below!
Blogger "Agnostic" over at Dusk in Autumn has a post up about the regional variation in Germany (Oktoberfest, lederhosen, dirndls and Germany's cultural fault-line). As I've noted in my posts on the American nations (most recently here, see the category here), Germany has been one of the most important countries for seeding the nations of North America, if not the most important, after Britain itself. (Indeed, "German" is the largest self-reported ancestry in America – and one of the largest in Canada; but, as Greg Cochran notes, this should be taken as more of a sign of the reach of German genes rather than the true distribution of German-Americans themselves.) As was the case for Britain – made clear in the books Albion's Seed ("Albion" being the oldest known name for Britain) and American Nations – the regional origin of the German settlers should have great significance for the places they settled.
On that point:
This is a map of the common regional stereotypes in Germany (origin not clear – feel free to let me know if you know its source).
Germany is a country of contradictions. The country that:
Rolls out the welcome mat for immigrants – such that 19% of its population is of foreign background, including from the developing world – particularly Turkey
Is overly insistent on diversity – to the point that it bans a political ad featuring white chocolate because of the ad's "subtle racism" (which isn't totally off-base, by the way)
Is the same country that:
Gave us the genocidal and ultra-nationalistic Nazis
Has towns that are this day run by modern Nazis
Indeed, even in the United States, there is a distinct and seemingly orderly division between the areas that contain heavy amounts of German-American settlement:
The western sections of the Midlands – and Yankeedom for that matter – contain heavy German settlement. Why are the Germans of Nebraska so much more to the Right politically than the Germans in southern New Jersey/eastern Pennsylvania?
Part of the reason is of course due to intermixing with the other settlers in the various regions, particularly the Scotch-Irish in the west (see this comment of mine over at race/history/evolution notes: Ethnic origins of presidents of the University of California system for more on that).
The answer to all these may lie in the words of "Agnostic":
Perhaps the most familiar example to us of Germans who know how to have a rollicking good time is Oktoberfest. That sure doesn't sound like a ritual created by dour, nose-to-the-grindstone martinets. Incurious foreigners might try to spin some baroque explanation for this "counter-intuitive" fact. I don't know why people have such a problem with common sense. Maybe it's not so counter-intuitive, and you're simply missing a big piece of the puzzle.
That's what's going on here — Oktoberfest comes from one half of Germany, while those other stereotypes come from the other, opposite half. No contradiction to resolve. It would be like a clueless outsider trying to explain how Los Angeles stereotypes ultimately and tortuously derive from American Puritanism — wrong part of the country.
(Well, I can explain how L.A. culture derives from American Puritans, but I digress.)
Germans in different parts of Germany are quite different from one another in many ways. Ergo, places that received German settlers may differ from one another depending on from where, exactly, these settlers originate – just as the case with Britain.
Germany was forged into a unified country fairly recently compared to the other old European powers, having been united into the German Empire in the 1870s. Before that it consisted of various de facto sovereign states at various stages of consolidation. Regional differences have remained evident.
Agnostic gives us a few examples. Google searches reveal cultural divides within Germany:
HBD Chick has also looked at this issue, noting a distinct East-West divide in the country terms of civicness:
As you would expect from its geographic location, Germany (and Poland) gradually transitions from outbred Western Europe to inbred Eastern Europe, just as one would expect as one approaches/crosses the Hajnal line (or about such).
Indeed, the aforementioned neo-Nazi town is, sure enough, in the East, in the area marked "Uncharted" on the map (not too far north from the section marked "Nazis").
EDIT: 3/17/14: As further evidence for the existence of a East-West and a North-South divide in Germany, here (courtesy commenter Richard), a map of the results of German federal election, from March 1933 (from Wikipedia):
EDIT, 4/11/15: [Here are voting patterns in Germany for earlier years during the Weimar period (credit here):
We can see that while there is some variation, the strong regional differences remain evident during the entire period. ***End Edit***]
This gives us an indication that German emigrants might systematically vary depending on which section of the country they originate. There were several waves of German settlement to the U.S. The earliest waves, the Pietists that settled in William Penn's Delaware colony. Many of the early colonists came from the Palatine region – the area marked "Cheerful" on the above map. Several of the subsequent waves originated in that area. However, the flow of migrants remained strong, and indeed, began to swell during the 19th century, when, all told, nearly 6 million Germans came to America (unfortunately, I don't have regional breakdowns of these subsequent immigrants).
If there was a distinct regional skew in where these settlers to America originated, it might go a long way towards explaining a few things. If you have any information on this, please feel free to share it. 🙂
Filed under American Nations, Ideology and Worldview
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laidnyc / Sep 5 2013 8:12 AM
That map of Germany is pretty funny, I wonder if you have any German natives who can confirm its accuracy. I descend from two different places in Germany, pretty much right on top of the "Serious" and "Cars" label.
Eren Jäger / Sep 5 2013 11:34 AM
JayMan, I am the commentor formerly known as "Coward". I lied about my identity, I am actually a 13 year old almost pure White HBD'er. Here is my new blog ; shadydawgcoward.wordpress.com. You will have to excuse the immature and simplistic tone of the majority of my posts, I wrote it during severe bouts of OCD+ I am very young. However, I will be writing more complex and coherent posts from now on. Here is my magnum opus thus far;
http://shadydawgcoward.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/hbd-epigenetics-and-environment-a-love-triangle/
It deals with epigenetics.
Gottlieb / Sep 5 2013 4:32 PM
Like "israelis"??
Tell me the differences between them??
Hariken Porimaa / Sep 7 2013 10:06 AM
Simple: The case with Germany is the truth while the case with Israel is a pack of lies repeated by Islamofascists and Eurofascists. Looking to rebuild the Ottoman Empire, are you?
Cicerone / Sep 5 2013 5:37 PM
Apart from the "dirt porn" and "ctatty" the stereotypes seem to be right to me (I am a German).
Anthony / Sep 6 2013 12:24 PM
Bavarians are fun-loving beer-hounds, but they're also the wealthiest Germans, and have lots of manufacturing. Prussians are also fun-loving, but their idea of fun is invading Poland.
My wife is from Iowa, and when she visited Germany, she said the countryside looked *a lot* like a more densely-populated Iowa. Iowa has lots of Germans, some Dutch (Nederlanders), some Danes, and very few Scandinavians. Probably just not cold enough for the Scandis. Every town has a Catholic church and a Lutheran Church. Most also have a Baptist/evangelical church.
Chris / Nov 23 2013 6:20 PM
Sounds like paradise!
Incidentally, there are German folk festivals in my area, and they're very, um, efficient. Almost no handcrafts or import-sellers, or any of that. Just the essentials for having fun: beer, sausage, music, dance.
chrisdavies09 / Sep 6 2013 1:06 PM
Interesting post, probably true stereotypes lol.
In addition to large-scale German migration to America, there was also considerable German migration to the UK lasting from 17th century to the early 20th century. It didn't really have as much cultural impact here as it did in the US though.
"By the end of the seventeenth century, a significant German community had developed, consisting mostly of businessmen, mainly from Hamburg; sugar bakers and other economic migrants. In 1709-1710, thousands of Germans from the Electorate of the Palatinate, which had been invaded by French forces and suffered a severe winter, also migrated to England. Queen Anne's government had invited them, with the plan to settle Germans in the North American colonies. Some stayed in the London area."
"Throughout the 19th century a substantial population of German immigrants built up in Britain, numbering 28,644 in 1861. London held around half of this population, and other sizeable communities existed in Manchester, Bradford and elsewhere. The German immigrant community was the largest group until 1891, when it became second only to Russian Jews. There was a mixture of classes and religious groupings, and a flourishing culture built up, with the growth of middle and working class clubs. Waiters and clerks were two main occupations, and many who worked in these professions went on to become restaurant owners and businessmen, to a considerable extent.[14] This community maintained its size until the First World War, when public anti-German feeling became very prominent and the Government enacted a policy of forced internment and repatriation. The community in 1911 had reached 53,324, but fell to just over 20,000 after the war.[15]"
[Source: Wikipedia]
helvena / Sep 6 2013 8:20 PM
"Gave us the genocidal and ultra-nationalistic Nazis" – this statment demonstrstes a very pedestrian and inaccurate understanding of the National Socislists and therefore of history.
Meanwhile, you stop there and refuse to elaborate. That looks like an apologistic view of national socialsm, to be sure. The nationalism is in the Nazi Party's name, and their genocidal behavior is a matter of record.
JayMan / Sep 7 2013 11:37 AM
I didn't refuse to elaborate, I simply didn't elaborate just as Jayman didn't with the statement in question. What I did do was challenge JayMan to look deeper than what the winners of the war offer. He might start here: http://inconvenienthistory.com/index.php
As our knowledge of humanity grows by challenging the status quo so does our understanding of history.
hbd chick / Sep 6 2013 10:49 PM
different germans is different! yes! (^_^)
i have a hunch — and it's just a hunch so far, i've got no data — that that the northern germans (on greying wanderer's north european plain) are going to prove to be more outbred than germans further to the south as one approaches the alps. that's my prediction (now i just have to find some data!).
germans very far to the north on the coast — the dithmarsians, for instance — they're another story, of course — clannish and recent inbreeding, i do believe (again, i need data!).
JayMan / Sep 6 2013 10:51 PM
Wait… 😉
Not all emigrants to the USA from Germany were of Germanic origin.
Andy / Sep 7 2013 4:48 PM
The issue of Germans is far more complicated than what you are looking at. First of all, Germans have long lived far beyond the borders of today's Germany proper. Some ethnic/dialectical groups today who were German and were indistinguishable from other Germans in the middle ages pretend not to be today. Much of todays understanding of ethnic groups and nation states goes back only to the time of Napoleon, while Germany itself only became strictly defined in the time between Bismarck and Hitler.
When looking at who is German, or "Deutsch" when such people started coming to America in the 1600's, this group would have included all of the Germanic people of Germany (including Silesia and Pommerania), Austria, Tyrol, Switzerland, Alsace, Lorraine, Luxembourg, Flanders, Holland, Prussia, Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, and Transylvania.
In general, this larger group of Germans can be divided into a handful of large tribal groups dating back to before the time of Rome:
1) Franks (Germans living along the Rhine and Meuse Rivers – Holland, Flanders, Luxembourg, Rhineland, Franconia, Palatinate, Lorraine, and also eastward through Thurningia and Silesia and into Posen and Ukraine).
2) Allemanians (Germans living in Alsace, Baden, Switzerland, Vorarlberg)
3) Bavarians (Germans living in Bavaria, Bohemia, Tyrol, Moravia, Austria)
4) Swabians (Germans from Swabia [Wurrtemburg/Northern Bavaria], who also later settled the Danube Valley in Hungary and Serbia)
5) Frisians (Germans living on the North Sea Coast)
6) Saxons (Germans living behind the Franks along the Ems and Elbe River behind the North Sea and also in Holstein, Mecklenburg, and Pommerania and also down the Carpathians in Transylvania, who also later settled in Russia)
7) Prussians (Baltic Prussians mixed with Saxons and Germanized)
The densest part of Germany has always been the Rhine Valley and upper Danube Valley – i.e the Romanized parts of Germany from Holland and Flanders down through Swabia and into southern Bavaria. This part of Germany was continually producing a surplus of population compared to arable land who tended first to move east into the slavic countries of eastern Europe, and later after the discovery of America emigrated in very large numbers to the US, Canada, and Brazil. They were also the Germans who settled the lands in the lower Danube Valley, southern Ukraine, and Volga Russia Plain devasted by Turks and Tartar slave raiders.
The German pietists who emigrated from the Palatinate who settled in Pennsylvania were Allemanians from Switzerland and Alsace who had been driven from their homelands for their pacificsm and religious non-conformity and moved up the Rhine the in search of tolerance. This liberal group is the base German population of Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. To this group were added Lutheran dissidents driven out of Catholic Austria and Bavaria int he 1700's.
Later German settlers tended to settle in climate/geographic belts reminiscent of their homelands. Middle and Southern Germans (Franks/Swabians/Bavarians) tended to settle the eastern midlands out to Iowa. Northern Germans (Saxons, northern Franks) tended to settle in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota along with their Scandanavian kissing kin. Eastern Germans, including large numbers of dissilusioned Russian German settlers from Russia and Ukraine settle on the great plains along with Poles and Czechs. You can in part tell the general origin of settlers by the names they gave to places they settled in America. A town named Bremen in Indiana (and a major city in northern Germany) is unlikely to have been settled by Bavarians. A neighborhood named "Over the Rhine" in Cincinatti is unlikely to have been settled by Saxons.
Germany in general is divided between a conservative and Catholic South and West and a liberal, individualistic, and Protestant North and interior. The different temperment of Germans from different regions along with the special temperments of small pioneer groups like the German Pietists or the Russian Germans account for quite a bit of the political variance in American German groups. It should not be surprising the the descendants of liberal dissident Germans in Pennsylvania vote more liberal, while conservative pioneers who had previously colonized Russia and later moved to South Dakota would remain conservative.
Billium / May 3 2016 2:50 AM
Actually, there are plenty of Fanks in northern Baden-Wurttemberg, and northwest Bavaria. The Electoral Palatinate had in fact been primarily in northern Baden, from which many Palatinate German immigrants to America and the Black Sea region of Russia had come from, before Napoleon dismembered that state, and gave it to it's neighbors, such as Baden.
karl william liebhardt / Nov 20 2017 1:34 AM
As a native born to wisconsin and also a resident of Pennsylvania, I believe most of the "dutchies" in PA are rural, provincial and conservative. The Germans who arrived in the later years and settled the midwest tend to be the more liberal of the 2 groups. I suspect many of these folk are the offspring of progressive germans who left when bismarck was unifying the empire. Just my take on it.
Hariken Porimaa,
I do not understand, you did now a satire is not?
I've read that Nazism was inspired by Zionism.
You just do not know what you're talking about, lower your tone of voice and his pedantic arrogance. I do not know what happened in World War II and will be humble in making sure the historical facts only when in fact it is proven something.
What actually happens is that the protocols of Zion, fake or not, make sense as well, the warnings of Adolf Hitler on the Jews.
And yes, Israel is like Nazi Germany, with the difference that the latter, above any other factor, tried to shake the arms of the octopus.
A number of factors are strange happening. For example, the Jewish organizations refuse to accept that any genocide can be compared at the same time that the alleged Holocaust. This is crude, absurd and disgusting. Moreover, there are people who have written books denying the Holocaust and are trapped while others deny it happened eg holodomor and their perpetrators and remain free, light and loose. So to say that the holocaust (supposed) was caused in large letters by GERMAN NAZIS, is correct. But to say that it was caused by holodomor COMMUNIST JEWS, is wrong, anti semitic.
"And yes, Israel is like Nazi Germany, with the difference that the latter, above any other factor, tried to shake the arms of the octopus…"
… (the international jewry).
It seems clear to me that there are several Jewish communities scattered around the world, who help each other and develop the same suicidal policies in the host countries, the vast majority of most European nations.
Prove i'm lying…
AK / Sep 7 2013 11:09 PM
(1) Don't know where to find the precise breakdown either, but AFAIK most of the 19th century German emigrants were from the north of the country. (Where does the hamburger come from)))
One curious fact I was once looking at and trying to propose hypotheses for is why average American IQ's are higher for descendents of Italians than for Germans – a puzzle first raised by Ron Unz.
One is the rural/urban distinction; more Italian-Americans live in cities, which appear to have an independent positive influence on IQ. Another explanation I suggested is that the bulk of German-Americans (especially those who emigrated more recently and are likelier to have retained their identies) are mostly from the north. We know from PISA that while the average IQ (as translated from PISA) in Germany is ~103, there are marked regional differences, with the north and east around ~100 and the south and Rhineland at ~100.
(2) About the Nazis – it's worth pointing out that the movement evolved out of the bourgeoisie and petit-bourgeosie of the Rhineland and Bavaria, and not from the more proletarian north or the east with its landed Prussian aristocracy. Prussianism was actually one of the more hostile elements to Nazism and always coexisted uneasily with it. Just look at the ethnic origin of the leading Nazis and this becomes obvious – there were even more Austrians (Seyss-Inquart, not to mention Hitler himself) there than there were Eastern Germans (Alfred von Rosenberg, IIRC, was the only one of any prominence). So I'm not buying any connection with original Nazism and increasing rates of inbreeding as you go east.
Likewise for modern times, the explanation is sooner the post-Communist transition shock experienced by East Germany and the surfeit of males there (a lot of the young women have migrated west) than anything to do with HBD.
Not much of a puzzle. Stated ethnicity doesn't mean much in America.
One is the rural/urban distinction; more Italian-Americans live in cities, which appear to have an independent positive influence on IQ.
Yeah, as has been thoroughly discussed before, that's all bullshit. Where cities do have higher IQs than rural areas, this is entirely because of selective migration; smarter people move to cities raising average IQ there.
Another explanation I suggested is that the bulk of German-Americans (especially those who emigrated more recently and are likelier to have retained their identies) are mostly from the north. We know from PISA that while the average IQ (as translated from PISA) in Germany is ~103, there are marked regional differences, with the north and east around ~100 and the south and Rhineland at ~100.
I've been meaning to look that up. As I recall, don't the PISA score rise as you go from north to south in Germany?
About the Nazis – it's worth pointing out that the movement evolved out of the bourgeoisie and petit-bourgeosie of the Rhineland and Bavaria, and not from the more proletarian north or the east with its landed Prussian aristocracy. Prussianism was actually one of the more hostile elements to Nazism and always coexisted uneasily with it. Just look at the ethnic origin of the leading Nazis and this becomes obvious – there were even more Austrians (Seyss-Inquart, not to mention Hitler himself) there than there were Eastern Germans (Alfred von Rosenberg, IIRC, was the only one of any prominence). So I'm not buying any connection with original Nazism and increasing rates of inbreeding as you go east.
Maybe not so much east as south. I suspect the south of Germany (and, by extension, Austria) is more inbred than the northern part. This is where that DNA info would come in handy. 🙂
Explanation for what? 🙂
helvena / Sep 8 2013 8:26 AM
Just a thought Ak but could the tendency of German/Austrians toward National Socialism be because of their direct experience with the dysfunctional Austrio-Hungarian multicultural experiment and not with any inbreeding or other genetic factors? Simply, could environment have been the key?
Adalwolf / Sep 8 2013 11:45 AM
>(2) About the Nazis – it's worth pointing out that the movement evolved out of the bourgeoisie and petit-bourgeosie of the Rhineland and Bavaria, and not from the more proletarian north or the east with its landed Prussian aristocracy.
While that might be true regarding the elites, National Socialism didn't resonate well with the Catholic peoples of Germany (Rhinelanders; Bavarians; the south in general). The NSDAP swept the northern, Protestant electorate, while it received significantly less (but still many) votes elsewhere. Perhaps because it was not so much reactionary rather than revolutionary as an ideology, and thus not warmly received by the more conservative folks?
SFG / Nov 13 2013 10:31 PM
I think it has more to do with the economic problems in East Germany, from what I've read. Also, as many people say, you can't assume that a given part of a country will stay the same forever–the Southern US was less religious than the North in colonial times, for example. History is complicated and makes strange bedfellows.
JayMan / Nov 14 2013 1:35 PM
@SFG:
I think it has more to do with the economic problems in East Germany, from what I've read
Economic performance is more a symptom than a cause of anything. Why does the East German economy lag? As Staffan said, "we can't adjust for their entire history."
As to your other point, indeed, much of this is a snapshot in time. We don't know how these things will continue to evolve. That said, David Hackett Fischer managed to trace British-American ways to regional differences across Britain. If it works there, then almost certainly the same should work for German-Americans.
Gottlieb / Sep 8 2013 11:03 AM
The environment can turn certain genes in the population than before for reasons of cultural socialization were asleep. I think that Nazism arose as a response to a foreign threat. The wave of nationalism that swept Europe so far, are nothing more than your immune system responses to threats coming from outside. They are like white blood cells when they attack a virus or bacteria.
I believe that the environmental reasons are part of what I call internal variation to genetic predisposition. I mean, some people are closer to accept some kind of extreme behavior-collectivist, especially in response to the most hostile environment while others would show a bell curve behavioral unless directed to tribalism. While other people might have a large internal variation in personality, what I call a great adaptive capacity.
It may also be that in more collectivist societies, the idea of social hierarchy is more established and therefore, because the difference between the classes, ordinary people tend to accept the judge originated by control centers more easily.
I think that as a condition of human environmental adaptability, we present a variation inner personality that, like I said, some people are more prone to tribalism as a response to foreign threats, while others, perhaps for hormonal reasons, are less likely. Note that women and men are liberal and less likely to tribalism. The role of defense of human society, due especially to men, is a task almost entirely male.
joe / Sep 9 2013 12:47 PM
This is so disconcerting for me to read on this blog that I admire so much. Granted, you've grown up in the same Anglosphere that I have, with all that that entails, but to reject as much as the dissonance that you have and do, and then to post this is, while perhaps not bizarre, certainly indicative of the power of 100+ years of anti-German agitprop from both self-identified Anglo-Saxons and Jews.
I am not German. I am not descended from Germans. But the contributions from that group of people – not just Germanics, but Germans – in every imaginable field is, when viewed objectively, mind boggling, and to see some insipid map like the one you reposted, here, of all places, is galling.
If you look hard enough, one can distinguish "regional" differences between all peoples who call themselves peoples. We still call English English, French French, Jews Jews, Chinese Chinese, and Germans Germans. As any two-bit sociology prof will tell you here in the eternal land of German hatred, hair color or perceived emotional traits are trumped by a unifying culture. Just because the lands that constituted Germany got together late doesn't mean many of the people didn't desire that, just as they desired further unification with Austria and other traditionally German lands in Europe. They saw commonality in worldview and life approach.
You write about countries as if they're static, forever remaining the same no matter what happens to their population over time. Are you really scratching your head over the fact that a country that once had a nationalist government like China, India, or Israel and was defeated in a war like no other there's ever been on the planet, suffering the corresponding demographic change first internally (i.e. nationalists replaced by internationalists) then externally (i.e. now replace the native people with outsiders) is a land of "contrasts"? If you lost your legs in a car crash and your relatives wonder why you go about in a wheelchair now instead of playing soccer like you used to, wouldn't you find it bizarre that they don't take the car crash into account?
JayMan / Sep 9 2013 1:02 PM
Calm down buddy. When did I deny any of those things or have said anything disparaging about Germans? The map is NOT MINE, it's a collection of stereotypes presumably held by Germans themselves.
If you look hard enough, one can distinguish "regional" differences between all peoples who call themselves peoples. We still call English English, French French, Jews Jews, Chinese Chinese, and Germans Germans.
No kidding. Have you not been following along on this blog? Investigating those differences is. The. Point.
Just because the lands that constituted Germany got together late doesn't mean many of the people didn't desire that, just as they desired further unification with Austria and other traditionally German lands in Europe. They saw commonality in worldview and life approach.
No kidding, again. Just because there are differences doesn't mean that there aren't similarities, or a common national identity.
You write about countries as if they're static, forever remaining the same no matter what happens to their population over time.
Despite what you say, you must be new here or don't read what I've said very closely.
Look, I'm here looking for the reasons behind what we see. Merely pointing out that stuff happened is not end of the story, by a long shot.
Pablo Jakobi / Sep 12 2013 6:46 PM
I know that Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS for short!) has detailed information on where German-born immigrants came from, as well as where they live in the U.S. Amazingly, analysis can be conducted on 100% of all census returns (not a sample, but every actual return!) for the year 1880 (lots of for-born Germans still here at that time) under their North Atlantic Population Project: https://www.nappdata.org/napp/
JayMan / Sep 13 2013 10:20 AM
@Pablo Jakobi:
Thanks for the tip! I'll have to be sure to check it out.
P.J. / Aug 16 2014 10:40 PM
Hey Jay,
I extracted the data for 1880 by a few selected states (with high German populations) and by about 2 dozen German regions (Baden, Bavaria, Wurttemburg, Hesse, Schleswig, etc). It's a lot of info and I haven't begun to make sense of it just yet. A lot of state-specific variation in different German groups settling in different states. Do you have an email contact? I'd love to share & see what you think!
The Blondest. / Oct 4 2013 7:24 PM
The Nazis were popular in the North, because of the power of the Catholic Center party in Germany's south. Germany had only three real political parties before the Weimer republic, the Social Democrats, Communists, and the Center Party. Most Northern Germans that were not leftists did not have any politics before the Nazis came along. Northern Germany was very aristocratic, and most Northern Germans supported the Junker class or were leftist. In the book, "They Thought They Were Free", which is about why ordinary Germans voting and supporting Nazis. Most Germans that were Nazi supporters supported them because they were about the first political party that considered them to be human beings. The Nazis were a democratic yet elitist paradox of German politics. Hitler and many of the Nazis were Southern Germans who aspired to be part of the Junker class in the North. Hitler and many of his henchmen (yes, I am using that word) were more conservative than people realize. However, Hitler knew that in order to defeat the left and gain power in Germany, he had to play a populist line. Hitler's rightwing or non-leftwing populism worked in Northern Germany, because Social Democrats, Communists, and the Junkers did not care about the majority of Germans that lived in the North. The Left in Germany was all about urban workers, and the Junkers were about themselves. Meanwhile, the Southern Germans had a real populist party that was not leftwing. This was the Center Party. And Nazis I might add were influenced by the Center Party. It has even been debated among some historians, that Nazis were racist & secular version of the Center Party.
How this factors into the Southern and Northern cultural divide in Germany is rather complicated. The Nazis were a bunch of Southern Germans who wanted to be Junkers, yet largely built their success off of a political model that existed in Southern Germany. Southern Germany even today is dominated by economic populist yet culturally conservative politics. The rest of Germany has far more class based parties like the rest of Europe. Merkel recent success with Christian Democrats was that she transformed the party into a pro-middle class & pro-business party. Christian Democrats beforehand were becoming a regional party due to its rightwing populism. The only reason why Christian Democrats were even a major party was due to the United States occupation of Germany and the Cold War. America wanted a non-leftwing party to control Germany, and Christian Democrats were the only real non-leftwing party after the war. Christian Democrats were the Center Party reborn. The Center Party disappeared because of Franz Van Papen of the Center Party making Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
Might add the modern successors of the Nazis, NPD or National Democratic Party has been far more successful in Northern Germany than Southern Germany. Also the party has disappeared from Bavaria when it became actual Nazi party in 1980s. Bavaria was the hotspot for the original party, yet when the party went super racist they went north. Beforehand, the old NPD was racially conservative, yet not crypto-Nazi. This is the paradox of German politics. Rightwing populism seems not to succeed in Northern Germany without being racist. While in Southern Germany, racist parties usually gain some ground at first before making it big in Northern Germany. This because rightwing populism is such a big part of Southern German culture. Meanwhile, it is alien to Northern Germany.
Might add a lot German Anabaptists who settled America were from the Southern Germany or Switzerland. For example the Amish were a breakaway group of Swiss German Mennonites. Most German Mennonites are from Bavaria. If you are looking for regional breakdown, look at what religious sect they were. If someone is of Mennonite and Amish ancestry, they are Southern German or Swiss German.
Richard / Dec 15 2013 1:25 PM
Um, folks, the assertion that the "Nazis got support in the North" is too broad to be correct.
Here's a map of Nazi support in the last free election in 1933: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NSDAP_Wahl_1933.png
The Nazi's got the least support in the (industrialized, dense, Protestant, liberal, northern) Rhineland and the most support out in the (Prussian, Protestant) east
sadfwwee / Nov 12 2013 12:24 AM
My german ancestors were Prussians from modern north-central Poland. You'd think this would be common, as they had to have some wandering genes to decide to leave denser German areas to go live among slavs far away from home. I don't see the "ke" name endings that most Prussians have very often though in the U.S.
Patrick / Dec 14 2013 5:02 AM
Interesting read! So here is my take on Germans in America. You have the Pre Revolutionary War Germans (American Revolution not German) also known as the Pennsylvania Dutch/German who moved to the Midlands for religious freedom. Their descendents tend to be very conservative. Then you have the 49ers who moved to America after the 1848 German Revolution who tended to be more intellectually diverse than the previous German groups. Therefore as you move across the United States you have various degrees of Liberalism / Conservative Germans. My family in America comes from both of these two groups which makes for some interesting Christmas dinners!
Patrick C. Wentz / Dec 23 2013 8:54 PM
Great map which shows Lutheran Churches in America. There were not alot of Scandinavians in the US at this time so these churches were almost all German. You can see how perfectly this fits into Colin Woodards Midlands map of the 11 Nations and the map above of German American settlements.
j3morecharacters / May 6 2014 11:06 AM
Update your prejudices! The country that contributed most to the ethnic makeup of the USA is none other than Spain. Southern Spain, to be precise.
Peter Akuleyev / Jul 3 2014 9:00 AM
A map that is talking about German culture rather than politics really should include Austria. It is only due to historical accidents that modern Austria is not part of the German state. If anything, Vienna should be the capital of Germany, not Berlin. A pre-1945 map should also include the German speaking areas of Bohemia where 3 million ethnic Germans lived, most of whom emigrated to West Germany after 1945, adding another wrinkle to the East/West divide.
socontagiouslyfree / Jul 4 2015 2:19 AM
look into "Germans from Russia"
Joost / Jul 14 2015 5:23 AM
Interesting approach upon explaining the demographical and political situation regarding German immigrants in the US. Still a scientific approach would need to rely on much more data, including properly adressed sources.
One remark however: Being German I think it is wrong to explain current Nazi-tendencies in eastern Germany with the election outcome of the 1930s. A generally much more supported reasoning roots in the decades if communist reign, resulting in an economical deficiency as compared to west Germany. As the unemployment rate is much higher, emigration and a tendency to support more extreme political parties are the consequence.
JayMan / Jul 14 2015 7:43 AM
@Joost:
A key point of this post is that communism isn't so much a cause of present-day outcomes, but more a common symptom. Where did communism come from?
Strobel@jstrobel.de / May 14 2016 2:45 AM
I think German's diversity is based on
– Topography of their region
The north is flat, the middle hilly, the south more hilly with mountains. In the north people could and did mix well between villages. This did not happen so much in the south, hence the difference in tradition and foremost dialect.
– Dialect
Dialect in Germany is no social class indicator but very well accepted as a regional fingerprint. I believe that is one of the mayor differences to the Uk and France, but please correct me.
– Weather in their region
The north sees Atlantic rain, the south benefits from southern weather spilling over the alps or coming through the Rhone valley, The NW benefits from the Channel's Gulf-stream and the East gets Russian cold but also stable continental summer-heights. The impact of that to society can not be underestimated and is fascinating.
Some time after Luther, it was ruled that people had to take up the religion of their local Fürst or Graf. The impact of the above mentioned mechanisms plus some randomness gave northern Germany a dominant Protestant population and the south a dominant Catholic one. The different ways these religions shape perceptions is a huge factor in diversity.
The NSDAP voting maps shown are a mirror of this religion distribution: Protestants like to try out new things, Catholics stick with tradition. In case of the NSDAP, one can see how that (try new things) can go wrong even if intentions were good.
– Heritage regulation
And finally, there is a dividing line in Germany as to who inherits the farm: The eldest son gets all (roughly NE) or all land is divided amongst the sons (roughly SW). That also determines who left for America. I do not know too much about the origin or the reason of these two different systems but am sure they are routed in the above mentioned mechanisms.
Being a country in the middle of Europe, Germany's diversity might not be caused by genetic diversity, but that would be a good research subject, sort of an Anti-Finnland case.
I guess the German map is quite OK.
JayMan / May 14 2016 6:51 AM
Regional diversity generally reflects genetic diversity.
Thanks a lot for the info!
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Just a contribution: my dad's family came from the Volga region of Russia, where large numbers of Germans–Protestant and Catholic–built colonies at the invitation of Catherine the Great[who was a German]. The maintained their autonomy, language, and identity, but many were unwilling to serve under[later] the Czars, so they emigrated to North America. It made sense that these farmers settled in places like Kansas, Eastern Washington, and parts of Canada[some also settled in Mexico; I've met a few who spoke both German and Spanish]. I can trace our lineage back to Germany, but we identify more with the Volga area. By the time the Bolsheviks seized power, these farmers resisted collectivization and were either killed or sent to Siberia.
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Inevitably, something like this happened this past Monday. I was shooting an industrial commercial for Armor laptops.
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Well, the filming location was at the Luck Stone rock quarry in Goochland, Virginia (about 40 minutes away from my house in downtown Richmond). I get on location a bit early and wait in a small office. The other actors arrive along with the crew.
Mind you, it is 7:30am (which is normally when I am already at work), so folks are a bit tired and REAL quiet. Now, being a comedian, silence is tough, especially that early in the morning. Therefore, I am supposed to, nay, OBLIGATED to fill it.
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