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  • 'Pennsylvania Dutch' (i.e. German...) is a thing though, and a bunch of the Midwestern states preserve a lot of Germanic traditions, but as you say they mostly don't seem to have kept the hyphenated identity in the same way that (say) the Midwestern Scandinavian immigrants have.

  • The German American identity took a fair pounding during prohibition. German immigrants were obviously prominent in the beer industry and some prohibition campaigners used recent memory of WWI to try and make drinking associated with treason.

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