Louisville s German numbers are perfectly valid in both the inner city and the county as a whole You will not find another single urban Southern county that has county wide German ancestry in the same range as Jefferson County KY except in high growth Florida counties where most residents are essentially relocated Midwesterners and Northeasterners I said county wide NOT just in reference to the inner cities which as you stated are often majority black Not in Dallas Houston San Antonio Richmond Nashville Memphis Charlotte etc etc will you find similar German ancestry ranges higher than 15 or so percent German ancestry county wide Jackson County MO 23 3 black 16 7 German Jefferson County KY 19 black 18 2 German Marion County IN 24 2 black 17 0 German and on the other hand Davidson County TN 7 8 German Shelby County TN 5 3 German Henrico County VA 9 1 German Bexar County TX San Antonio 8 6 Harris County TX 7 2 Dallas County TX 6 6 Mecklenberg County NC 9 5 Louisville s relatively low percentages of slaves weren t unheard of among slave states especially for a border city but they hardly support this notion of the city being marginally Unionist You can not compare Louisville s German populations to other Southern cities consistently across history the fit just isn t there On the 1872 map only the upper rim of the South or lower rim of the Midwest depending at how one looks at it received higher influxes of German and this it is shaded darker than portions further south The Germans are relevant here because they tended to despise slavery given how they viewed it in relation to the serf system of their homeland The border states generally attracted fewer Germans because of the legality of slavery when they did settle in these states the Germans by and large chose cities like St Louis Louisville Covington etc for economic opportunities and because of a general identification with the culture Yes Louisville had a Confederate section of town Yes Seattle Washington has a Confederate memorial monument And There is no good reason to rewrite history to over state the importance of a few dissidents Recognizing the city s Confederate influence would be one thing but attempting to marginalize its importance affinity for the Union in the war would be another entirely