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Originally Posted by Crawford
It could also be location-specific. There's a fairly large population of Italian Americans in Detroit's Eastern suburbs, but it's a highly assimilated population with very limited connections to past cultural traditions. It would be really hard for a non-local to even notice the population. But in the NY area (and possibly other large concentrations in Philly and Boston) it's quite common to visit the "old neigborhood" on a regular basis, whether for groceries, worship, dining/hanging out.
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There's some semblance of that in my hometown; the Italian restaurants, bakeries, grocery stores, churches and cultural centers are all still on the east side even though there are very few Italians left there and the area has turned into the hood. Most of the businesses are dying out though and the cemeteries are full a lot of names that end in vowels...