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Quality Contributions Report for May 2026

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Thanks for the comment, but I don't know that I'd read too much into it as far as synergy is concerned. Enough places have greater than 10% Irish ancestry that the map you linked to is really just a map of places with large Italian populations. I think the supposed affinity comes more from being Catholic, as Italians around here seem closer to Slavs than anyone else, and if you look at historical settlement patterns Italians and blacks tended to live in closer proximity than Italians and Irish.

Irish descent is double Italian descent in America. Both of course sizable. Even if it’s just mostly an Italian map it’s still interesting how every county with a large Italian share all touch each other. The only real link to Pittsburgh is Pittsburgh being the the Western border of that immigration. Italians obviously have a part of the Pittsburgh story.

Twitter got interesting though with the talk about how in some communities everyone knew some Irish-Italian mix kids. Me being one of them from Pittsburgh. And there were a few more kids with Irish first names and Italian last names or the opposite I saw on Twitter of a Maria O’Callahan.

Pittsburgh always has a debate on whether it’s east coast or Midwest or something else. The east coast always felt distant to me but the shared Ellis Island wave is one east coast link.

Someone could probably do an interesting post on the common unique American mixtures. The most recent forming one is probably the white male asian female that seems popular in some areas.

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