[Republican Red]

My maiden name ends in a vowel and I wasn't offended by this nickname. I am offended daily by the media and senators but not about this.

A very long time ago, my very Italian grandfather once told me that good Italians have names ending in "i" (i.e Guiliani), bad Italians end in "o" (i.e Gambino), "a" could go either way. Obviously, my maiden name ended in "i". I can think of numerous examples of this theory not holding true but in all these years this bit of ethnic profiling never left me. I wonder what my grandpa Leo would think of Alito. lol

[Gaetano]

Your grandfather must have been a northerner. The north-south divide among italians is a whole other can of fagioli.

[firebrand]

You forgot those whose last names end in e. I'm sure you can come up with a stereotype for them too.