| Well, taxpayers in New York and California, say, subsidize Mississippi. That's the way it goes.
Southern Italy has always been way poorer than the north.
But there's more to it than wealth. If northern Italy is "Italian", southern Italy is Italian with knobs on: absolute corruption, clan mentality, ubiquitous mafia -- you name it.
So northerners feel endlessly superior to southerners.
"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."
-- Viscount Melbourne |