If Marx had moved to Texas he would have had to leave along with many of the other Germans who lived there because of the Civil War. The Germans were mostly Unionists. In the Hill country town of Comfort, a large group of Germans were on their way out to join the Union forces and were caught by Confederate militia and all murdered. German was the second language of Texas then and was the main language of schools in their areas. It was only after the legislature passed laws banning German from being spoken or printed upon US entry into WWI, that it lost its primacy.
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