5%. There’d be a lot more of us but somewhere in the early nineteen hundreds Congress thought it was a good idea to stop us from coming and let more Central Americans come.
That worked out great.
There are several hundred thousand of us on the South shore of Staten island. Trump won by only 57% because Obama’s sons on the other side voted 95 to 5 Hillary.
we wised up to the identity politics of Democrats in the 1960s my father told me. I would imagine over all Italians go in large numbers for the Republican.
There is no love lost between blacks and Italians. For nearly every terrible black neighborhood in Staten island and Brooklyn you can go back 50 or more years and find out there was once a beautiful Italian neighborhood.
But the South shores is ours. No projects. Not letting any be built.
De Blasio had ideas. No stone would have stood after the first story was built
I’m 3rd generation 100% Italian. Most of my family are Republican’s.
As Reagan said “I didn’t leave the Democrat party, they left me”. That applies to most Italian’s that I know.
The Democrats have gone bat-shit crazy. They have an outright hatred of the country and of Western Civilization. I suspect they have always had it but Trump has driven them crazy to the point where they can’t hide it anymore.
Going to be an ugly, rough year. Take care.
There’d be a lot more of us but somewhere in the early nineteen hundreds Congress thought it was a good idea to stop us from coming and let more Central Americans come.
Quota were put in place after WWI when the US decided it had enough immigrants for a while.