Some eight million German immigrants have entered the United States since that point. Immigration continued in substantial numbers during the 19th century; the largest number of arrivals moved β, when Germans formed the largest group of immigrants coming to the U.
California and Pennsylvania have the largest populations of German origin, with more than six million German Americans residing in the two states alone. Americans of German descent live in nearly every American county, from the East Coast, where the first German settlers arrived in the 17th century, to the West Coast and in all the states in between.
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