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 Your meddling immigrant confusion... 

I have a source here that explains the ethnic origins of American Founding Fathers:

http://www.greatseal.com/committees/firstcomm/index.html

(English, Scottish, Irish, French, Dutch/Orangist, German/Holy Roman coats of arms)

That being said, Rhenish Germans were the sort we had in those days.  Prussians and Austrians, as well as their politics, did not constitute part of the Founding Fathers' vision or hope of the future for America.  You'll have an impossible time convincing educated people that the Habsburg or Hohenzollern (except perhaps Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben) politics in any way were an inspiration for Americans of any or all origins, then and now.  We have had emulation of William van Oranje-Nassau and Prince Rupert of the Rhine including his family such as the Winter King and Queen of Bohemia, but that is because they were Rhenish and any other Palatine (Amish etc., like Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower) culture we pretty much supported always and for all times.  That's different from the East German culture, which has never, ever been a component of Americana and might never be either.  Try to prove otherwise to any academic historian and they will laugh in your face.  You have to put the German issue in context; Benjamin Franklin was hostile to ""Palatine Boors"" as he called them, but the Quaker establishment which founded Pennsylvania loved him to death.  You are looking for an inclusivity that only exists in the media (including revisionist history books), attempting to supplant our identity with subversive ""principles"".   "