TIL that during the peak of Anti-Germanism in WWI, Iowa's Governor William L. Harding forbade the speaking of any language besides English in public, especially German.
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in reply to Today I learned • • •There has historically been a surprisingly large German-speaking population in Iowa and other US states.
For example the famous band leader Lawrence Welk was from a German-speaking American community, that's why he had a German accent despite being born and brought up in the USA.