People have long recognized the distinction between northern and southern Italians. For example, English-speakers have traditionally strongly disfavored southern Italian immigration, while taking a more accepting view towards immigration by northern Italians.
. . . that the greater desirability of the northern Italian is recognized wherever experience has been had with both northern and southern Italians . . . The Governor of one state in the heart of the industrial South . . . writes as follows:--
". . . We prefer very greatly the northern Europeans, but could use handsomely to their profit and to the profit of our people, some from northern Italy . . . I am certain that we do not want and we should insist that we do not get, people from the southern parts of Italy . . . "
(Immigration and the South, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1905)




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