Premise: The German American ethnic group ( Deutschamerikaner ) consists of Americans who have full or partial German ancestry . Minnesota . The state remains today a center of Scandinavian American and German American culture . Scandinavian Americans or Nordic Americans are Americans of Scandinavian ( in the broad sense ) , or part-Scandinavian ancestry , defined in this article to include Danish Americans ( estimate : 1,453,897 ) , Faroese Americans ( no estimates ) , Finnish Americans ( estimate : 677,27 ) , Greenlandic Americans ( estimate : 352 ) , Icelandic Americans ( estimate : 51,234 ) , Norwegian Americans ( estimate : 4,602,337 ) , Sami Americans ( estimate : 30,000 ) , Swedish Americans ( estimate : 4,293,208 ) .
Hypothesis: Minnesota was avoided by Europeans when they settled America.
Label: CONTRADICTION