If you read local newspaper coverage of WWI, for example, it is neutral through most of the old-world political nonsense and madness of the early years of the war. So when WWII rolled around that sentiment was maybe even stronger.
Charles Lindbergh was one of the leading proponents of the "America First", which viewed WWII as a war to bail out the British Empire and also as an endeavor aimed at the wrong enemy--Germany instead of the Soviet Union. He was a world famous figure at that time due to his transatlantic flight in 1927, of course. The nexus of people involved in the America First movement is pretty interesting in retrospect--the Kennedy family, Gerald Ford, and a number of others who were prominent actors or politicians. The assassinations of the Kennedy family members over the years probably indicate a long standing feud between their faction and some shadowy group of mafiosi.
Another interesting element of those people is their home base was the heartland of the United States--places like Chicago and St Louis. In those early decades of the 20th century, what's now the rust belt was booming and generating fortunes.
The pre-WWII era in the United States is just about forgotten in a tornado of propaganda and pop-culture created to wipe its memory out. For example, in the retrospective memory of people, Great Britain is cast as a poor, helpless foundling who needed the might of the United States to bail it out. In fact, it was a world spanning Empire.
The ultimate irony is life is being breathed into that forgotten history today by the grandchildren and great grandchildren of the people who hate "America First" so much. It's too obvious they're just another faction with its own malignant agenda.
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