Today it would be a conservative state.
Well that would have been weird.
Some Sicilians says, “I’m Sicilian, not Italian,” but not all. A chef I met recently definitely didn’t feel that way.
Let’s just get a ferry service going until we can build a bridge.
If the annexation had happened, Michael Corleone could not have hidden in Sicily after the veal, and he would have never met Apollonia.
Yes, Sicilians floated that idea sometime ago. They would surely be better off under Washington than they are under Rome. And we would get a great Mediterranean vacation spot!
Sicily voted Communist if I recall correctly after the war. Italy was that close to going Communist in the 40s.
That would have been cool. No way La Cosa Nostra would have laid down for the Black and Latino drug gangs. It would have been bloody, sure, but it would have made for great drama.
I miss Joe Pesci.
I’d take Sicilians/Italians in a heartbeat over other most other cultures — you know, the ones ruining America. They’re generally great patriotic Americans and I love that about them. Even their nefarious history in America had some kind of structure and honor within it which BLM, Antifa, etc., do not have.
But that’s just me.