In early part of Texas history, the largest European ethnic group in Texas were Germans.
German immigrants tended to cluster in small communities located predominately in Central Texas.
As of the late 1880s the population of San Antonio was one-third of German descent.
As late as the 1990s almost three million Texans claimed full or partial German ancestry. By this count, Germans ranked behind Hispanics as the third-largest national origin group in the state.
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