> German-Americans left a high-social-trust, low-crime culture Did they? I can't speak to the crime rate of the German empire, but a very common reason to immi

> German-Americans left a high-social-trust, low-crime culture Did they? I can't speak to the crime rate of the German empire, but a very common reason to immigrate, in addition to availability of farm land, was to avoid the draft (low social trust). The slow rate of assimilation is also a signal that these were not people coming from a "high-social-trust" background.