> Additionally, many believed that by fighting against Germany in World War 1, all German-American's had proved their loyalty beyond any more doubt. I'd love t

> Additionally, many believed that by fighting against Germany in World War 1, all German-American's had proved their loyalty beyond any more doubt. I'd love to see a source for this. My research and interviewing my relatives who were there suggested that they were quite concerned that the germans were "hard to spot". > Italians were a 'new' wave of immigration, pushed into ghettos due to existing social bigotry, and easily differentiated from the normal phenotypic blend of older immigrant populations that became the white American norm. I mean it wasn't _that_ new. There was a major wave of immigration in 1910. But bigotry based on appearance is almost always the basis of this.