Why is Southern Italy poorer than Northern Italy?

[Empecinado]

Because of the internal migration of the 50s-60s, quite similar to your african american ''Great Migration'', but more intensive and consistent in numbers...Northern Italy absorbet millions of southern immigrants in our industries (FIAT, Pirelli, Maserati, Kinder-Ferrero, Ansaldo, Barilla, etc)...especially here in Piemonte, in Liguria and in Lombardy, this immigration literally ''raped'' the ethnic composition...that's why Piemont is only 40% piemontese, Lombardy is only 27% ethnic lombard and Friuli is only 60% forlan/rhaetoromance...

Here the map of non-natives by single provinces...as you can see, here (Northwest) we're pretty fucked...and the map include only italic people and not recent immigrants...

It happened in all countries with an unequal distribution of industrialization, in Spain in the 60s happened the same, many towns became 100% depopulated when its inhabitants migrated to the industrial centers, also in Japan which used to have many dialects but after its internal migrations dissapeared.

[Vasconcelos]

Turkish/ mourish dumb south europin,kkkkkkkk

Margareth Sanger, you had reason!!!

Please do humanity a favour and stop posting here.

[Wolf]

You should both stop destroying the thread!

That's not very useful.

[Peyrol]

OT deleted, now stay on topic please.

...and Andarijo, stop with your interventi imbecilli, please.

[American_Hispanist]

I suspect Andarijo is a troll who wants to put down Southern Europeans.

[Gaijin]

It has to do with a process entitled Industrialization.
The North indicted a growth as to urbanization, whereas the South did not.

[denz]

Well, because there are easy going. It depend on your point of life view. If you tell that they are not industrialized as northern, might be. But i consider them better condition then milano etc.

[Peyrol]

Well, because there are easy going. It depend on your point of life view. If you tell that they are not industrialized as northern, might be. But i consider them better condition then milano etc.

Lol, are you serious?

The south better than Milano?

[Nico]

I know many southern Italians (from America and Italy) and they really don't care about other Italians. I know Italians have great pride in their heritage and communities, but when it comes to working together they really don't have an interest in it. They are so highly individualistic and envious of each other that it prevents them from having a wealthy society of their own. Also, there is not enough good education in the south, and the mafia has very significant control over the south as well which prevents a lot of development.

[Peyrol]

I know many southern Italians (from America and Italy) and they really don't care about other Italians. I know Italians have great pride in their heritage and communities, but when it comes to working together they really don't have an interest in it. They are so highly individualistic and envious of each other that it prevents them from having a wealthy society of their own. Also, there is not enough good education in the south, and the mafia has very significant control over the south as well which prevents a lot of development.

What do you expect from an artificial country built 152 years ago?