Why is German the largest self-reported ancestry in the United States and not English if the US was a British colony?

Question

Why isn’t it English by far?

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Answer 1

Most of the US as it stands was never a British colony. Not even all of the original 13 were predominatly British. English immigration waves were a long while ago, with plenty of more recent additions to override it in what people are aware of and dilute it. German was a strong part of that.