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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
it's not 100% completely unheard of, but in chicago at least, it's nothing at all like you see with the other major ethnic groups here like mexicans, irish, polish, puerto ricans, etc.
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I wonder why the Italians didn't go through a similar "lying low" during WW2? Or maybe they did... I know there was a large postwar wave of Italian immigrants that didn't live through that, so maybe they helped rekindle a bit of Italian pride after the war.
Italians were also more recent immigrants to begin with, the bulk of Italian immigrants arrived in the 1900-1910 period while Germans came 40-50 years earlier.
I was in Monterey CA recently and was surprised to see the Italian grocers and delis in that city. I always think of California as a second-stage destination for people to shed their ethnic/"hyphenated" identities and fully embrace Americana.