> Spillville and Protivin were so Czech even when I was in school that I had bilingual classmates, because their grandparents spoke mostly Czech, still. My gra

> Spillville and Protivin were so Czech even when I was in school that I had bilingual classmates, because their grandparents spoke mostly Czech, still. My grandparents were from southeastern Iowa, and I understand that their town was mainly German-speaking. It was pretty established, too: they grew up speaking it as third-generation Americans. It stopped with their generation though, their town was harassed quite a bit during WWI, and that pushed people to assimilate. It really interesting how much linguistic diversity America had that's only gone extinct within living memory.