named after another country, no less Actually, both the language and kingdom were named after the Germanic tribe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language

named after another country, no less Actually, both the language and kingdom were named after the Germanic tribe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#History The names 'England' (or 'Aenglaland') and English are derived from the name of this tribe. Descendants of that Germanic tribe, until recently, composed the majority of Americans. http://www.vdare.com/pb/time_to_rethink.htm http://www.vdare.com/pb/time_to_rethink.htm After the turmoil of the Revolutionary War, there was a Great Lull remarkably similar to the one earlier this century. For nearly fifty years, there was practically no immigration at all. The U.S. grew rapidly through natural increase. But the make-up of the white population remained about what it had been in the 1790 Census: largely (60 per cent) English, heavily (80 per cent) British, and overwhelmingly (98 per cent) Protestant. This was the nation Alexis de Tocqueville described in Democracy in America (1835)