Timeline for Why did so many Italians emigrate to Argentina?
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| Mar 15, 2013 at 1:23 | comment | added | Tom Au | @T.E.D.: Texas was one place where there was still some "spare" land. But most of the U.S. South was "socially" (as opposed to climatically) hostile to Italians, who had a choice between the U.S. north, or Argentina. As late as the mid-1950s, Lee Iacocca's boss warned him to be prepared for hostility in the South. The boss' solution was to have him introduce himself as "Iacocca Lee," ("funny" first name, revered "last" name.) | |
| Mar 14, 2013 at 17:51 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | Another thing to mention in this regard is that pretty much all the available land in the Old South was by this time owned by somebody. It was only Argentina that still had lots of available land in the temperate zone. ...still, 4 million Italilans did immigrate to the USA. I know of at least two families (those of my minister's wife's parents) that even immigrated from Sicily to east Texas to take up farming there. So it wasn't unheard of. | |
| Mar 14, 2013 at 15:03 | history | answered | Tom Au | CC BY-SA 3.0 |