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What I suspect was going on is that in these Minnesota farming communities, a good proportion of the Germans were northern/Baltic Protestants whose native speech would have been Low German, so the High–Low distinction got reanalysed as being “proper” (Bible German) vs “dialect” rather than referring to Lower and Upper Germany—even when the low-status dialect was actually Alpine.
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