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Originally Posted by Docere
Among smaller cities, Italian is the most common ancestry in Providence and New Haven. And both have sort of "Italian" images (Providence for its Little Italy, New Haven for its pizza).
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It's more than just Federal Hill, though. The suburbs of Providence are full of Italians and Italian-Irish/Portuguese/French Canadian mixes. Just like in neighboring Bristol and Norfolk Counties in Mass. Every town common had in close proximity a VFW hall, an Elks lodge, and an Italian-American Club, at least until I left in 2002.
Growing up there, it felt like CCD and real school had ~80% overlap. Even the Asians (Vietnamese, Cambodians) and Blacks (Dominicans, Haitians) were Catholic.