--the principal base of US ethnicity then was German. Was there something in the cultural nature of Germans that leans fascist?
We are talking about the 20s right?? At that point, the principle basis of US ethnicity was still that ever lovin wasp stuff. Not now. If you meant immigrants, and you were excluding the wasps from the immigrants, I don't think so. I don't know the numbers but you were using state of origin as ethnic status, I would guess that Italy, Ireland, East European countries, etc., would be as large, counting separately, as Germans.
Would be interesting for someone to dig up the actual numbers. But those numbers will get very complicated in a very big hurry. Who is from where? How long have they been here to count as immigrants? Etc.
As for the "cultural nature" of Germans, that's a new one. One might argue that Germany had a certain political tradition, or that Germany had a certain form of high culture, but a "cultural nature"; I'm lost.
John |
