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Originally Posted by ilcapo
Are there any noticable differences in where in Ireland the Boston-irish and the Philly-irish immigrated from?
In the Italian case, the most of the immigrants in NY were from the South, while a larger percentage of the California-Italians were from the north, especially Genoa. The southern italians seemed to be more traditional and held on to their cultures for lomger.
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San Francisco attracted a lot of Italian immigrants but they seem to have completely assimilated. There's no Italian neighborhoods or suburbs, no visible Italian American subculture there as far as I can tell. Just a historic Little Italy in North Beach. It's quite possible it was a northern Italian population made it easier to assimilate.