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German reading matter was not the only casualty of the war at home; ethnic pride suffered too, as shown by a strange twist in the 1920 U.S. census. Although in the preceding decade 174,227 newcomers arrived from Germany (most of them in 1910-14, before the outbreak of the war) and return migration was low, the statistics show a 25.3 percent decline from the 1910 census in the number of German-born Americans. According to historian La Vern J. Rippley, the discrepancy can be explained by the reluctance of German Americans to reveal their birthplace to 1920 census takers. Rippley concludes that "the German-born as well as the German stock in the United States moved underground."
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The German roots of American brewing aren't surprising -- some 15 percent of the American population reports German ancestry. That's more than 42 million Americans claiming German heritage, including celebrities like Donald Trump, David Letterman, George Lucas and Babe Ruth.
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One German custom especially appalling to native-born Americans was drinking beer on the Sabbath. Many native-born Americans followed the English Puritan tradition of refraining from frivolous activities such as dancing, bowling, and drinking on Sundays. Most German Americans had no such traditional restrictions on Sabbath behavior, and their Sunday drinking caused such outrage that movements to restrict or prohibit liquor consumption arose in several states. Although most German immigrants agreed that moderation in drinking was a good idea, they viewed these legal efforts as direct attacks on both their way of life and their religious freedom. In Wisconsin (which by 1855 was heavily German), one newspaper lambasted "the Temperance Swindle" for reducing "all sociability to the condition of a Puritan graveyard." A German theater owner in St. Louis in 1861 defied a police order to close on Sunday, whereupon 40 officers arrived to prevent the audience from entering.
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