List of Italian American neighborhoods

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Italian-Americans in the United States can be found in large numbers and densities in states such as New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Michigan, Florida, California, Illinois, and Massachusetts. An estimate of 20 million Americans are of Italian or Sicilian descent. New York City has by far the most Italian-Americans in one area though and is still a common destination for Italians coming over to start a new life in America.

There are also communities of Italian Americans in most major industrial cities of early 20th c. US, such as Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; St. Louis, Missouri; Chicago, IL; Cleveland, OH; Buffalo, NY; and Kansas City, Missouri. New Orleans, Louisiana was the first site of immigration of Italians and Sicilians into America in the 19th c., before Italy was a unified nation-state. This was before New York Harbor and Baltimore became the preferred destinations for Italian immigrants.

In sharp contrast to the Northeast, most of the Southern US states (outside of South Florida) have very few Italian Americans residents. During the labor shortage in the 19th-early 20th centuries, planters in the Deep South did attract some Italian immigrants to work as sharecroppers, but they soon left the extreme anti-Italian discrimination and strict regimen of the plantations for towns or other states. Because of concerns about peonage and anti-Italian lynching, the Italian embassy warned Italian emigrants away from the American South.

Most Italian-American organizations and demographic experts say that they leave to escape the high real estate prices, cold weather and traffic, among other reasons, in the congested Northeast and East Coast in general.

States with the highest number of Italian American communities are New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

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[edit] California

[edit] Southern California

[edit] Northern California

[edit] Colorado

  • Denver in "Little Italy" in the Cherry Creek section

[edit] Connecticut

[edit] District of Columbia

[edit] Florida

[edit] Illinois

[edit] Louisiana

[edit] Massachusetts

[edit] Maryland

[edit] New Jersey

New Jersey municipalities with over 25% of the population identifying themselves as of Italian ancestry (in those municipalities where at least 1,000 residents identified their ancestry):[1]

Other places in New Jersey

[edit] New York

New York State has the largest population of Italian Americans with 3.1 million people claiming Italian ancestry. The majority of Italian Americans in New York City originated from southern parts of the country, but includes other regions. In the peak of Italian immigration (1910's), NY City and Chicago according to the 1920 census each had 28 neighborhoods and census tracts over 50% being of Italian descent.

New York City

Long Island

Upstate New York

[edit] Ohio

[edit] Pennsylvania

[edit] Rhode Island

19% of Rhode Island residents are Italian American, the greatest percentage of any state. 199,180 of Rhode Island's population of 1,048,319 claim Italian ancestry.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Italian Communities, accessed November 11, 2006
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