Ancestry

[CARLHAYDEN]

There was a book written about thirty years ago called "The Ethnic Factor," which examined the voting patterns of six ethnic groups.

[CARLHAYDEN]

I think I can explain the italians ancestry in the UP.

Of the european immigrant waves, the italians were predominantly in the early twentieth century (primarily before WWI).

At that time the UP was a major source of iron ore.

Mining at the time was an occupation at which new immigrants not fluent in the English language and without financial assets could make a living.