Why isn’t it English by far?
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Ancestry from the British Isles is split between many different categories: English, Welsh, and either Scots-Irish or Scottish and Irish separately. The combined total from these groups is usually larger than the total for German.
There have been more German immigrants, and the German immigrants are more recent, so people are more connected to that aspect of the culture. When someone says “yes, my great grandfather Fritz came over on the boat and then moved to Milwaukee, here’s a picture of my dad sitting on his knee,” that’s a personal connection. “My ancestors came over some time after the Mayflower” is far more distant and less personal.
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