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Originally Posted by Theobald
Indeed, that's my opinion as well. I was surprised to read this though, when looking for informations on Padania :
One pollestimated that 52.4% of Padanians north of the Po river consider secession advantageous ("vantaggiosa"), and 23.2% both advantageous and convenient ("auspicabile").
I did not know that popular support for Padanian independence was so important.
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I'm not so sure that secession would be all that "advantageous". I assume that by advantageous they mean in economic terms. There are a few things to consider. The South must be a considerable market for the products of the North. And I wonder how much of the economy and of the industry of the North is in hands of people from the South.
By the way, blaming Southern Italians for having migrated to the North would not be much fair in my opinion. I believe that the old northern republics had a established tradition of attracting foreign labour.
The most extreme case was in the limits of the north with Tuscany, the city of Livorno. In order to attract citizens, they offered a charter by which people who arrived to settle there would be protected if they were persecuted in other countries. This attracted criminals from Central Europe and Italy as well as Moriscos and Marranos from Spain.
A little Australia!
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