Why do Italians only live in the Northeast, and mostly NY/NJ/CN at that?
>>521036680this is where we got off the boats. not rocket science. i live less than 10 miles away from where my greatgreatgreat grandpa got off the boat from the old country
>>521036778Every ethnic group got off the boats there.
Old Bat Bartelino lived out in Montana back in the day.
ALASKA DOESN'T HAVE COUNTIESREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWHAT MORON MADE THIS
>>521036680Did you fail middle school history classes? How do you not know this? Are you a foreigner?
>>521036680God I didn't know America was this infested by krauts, I thought they were mainly in the midwest
>>521036845Louisiana doesn't either, they call them parishes. It all means the same thing though.
>>521036808i mean well yeah... perhaps the premise isn't correct then. there are many italians in chicago and cleveland too. also upstate ny and florida (due to later migration). What I will say is the climate of New York is extremely similar to that of northern italy. almost exactly the same, exact same seasons, temperatures, type of weather, etc. Maybe that contributed to it too
>>521036680Makes me proud to see that much greyAlthough I myself plan on settling somewhere in South America myself in a couple yearsProbably Peru
>>521036948>Louisiana doesn't either, they call them parishes.Thanks for sharing, anon, learned something.
>>521036778That's really cool and sad in the same time.
>>521037407It’s cool because putting roots down and making a legacy > deracinating your family.
>>521037205Proud of you guys too!
>>521037948yes my family has been living in brooklyn for over 150 years now. will probably never leave. can't imagine leaving honestly. I remember going to other parts of the country when i was younger and it felt like a foreign country
> largest self-reporting White ancestry by county> subsaharan african
>>521036680NYC is their connection to Europe and specifically Italy. Same reason the Irish Catholics circle around it. If they go too far inland they just become Americans.
>>521036808The Asian ones didn't (and, not coincidentally, Asian-Americans are concentrated on the west coast)Even with Euros, it took some time before migration was centralized in Ellis Island, I think a lot of German-Americans came before that for instance.
>>521036680Those polaks are liars, illinois is full of them and the don't even speak english in the least
>>521036680>Boat near port>Job near boat>Mafia near job
>>521039877this is very true too. keeps us close to europe
>>521037205and its not stopping
>>521040038New York, Boston, New Orleans and Montreal were always the main ports before Ellis Island. Later on Baltimore and Philadelphia. The old NY one was called Castle Clinton built in 1808 and was still the main one. Most US southern cities didn't have proper ports for people, Houston built its port in 1913. Other ones like Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina existed and accepted settlers before but there is no information about them anywhere during that time so can't have been used much. Most US cities didn't even exist yet, like Miami and Jacksonville. However, after Ellis Island was built that was the main entry point for nearly all immigrant ships.Port authorities would handle things like immigrants, so a port had to have a "Port authority" to accept people. Most smaller coastal cities only established their own port authorities during or after WW2.There's a list of them here:saintsbysea.byu.edu
We should've kept Ellis Island open. Shit was kinohttps://youtu.be/xqQVD8GB5jI?si=hF0XmNbc9T5e6jBq
