Talk:List of Italian American neighborhoods

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on 8 May 2006. The result of the discussion was merge and redirect to Italian American.

[edit] Merge Complete

I have completed the merge and changed the article title per suggestion in the AfD. Let me know if you have any questions. Alphachimp talk 05:05, 17 July 2006 (UTC)



I think there is an Italian community in Donaldsonville, LA that's not listed on here. I'm not sure, though. Anybody know?

[edit] Data sources

Epodunk has pages for various ethnicities that rank US communities by percentage of the ancestry group in question. See here for Italian Ancestry. This is a great source because it already extracts and ranks the data for us, without needing to head to the Census Bureau. The problem is that the numbers don't appear to match the raw Census data that you'd find on http://www.Census.gov. It appears that Epodunk is adjusting the numbers to reflect that people can report multiple nationalities. For example, 19,383 people who live in Lyndhurst, New Jersey listed 23,389 different ancestries, a total of 120.7%. While the Census shows 40.8% of Lyndhurst residents reporting Italian ancestry, Epodunk appears to have divided this by 1.207 to come up with an "adjusted" Italian ancestry of 33.8% for Lyndhurst. Is this a proper step to do with the data? How can we download accurate raw data by place within state so that we can show the original Census data, without having to extract it one at a time for each municipality? Alansohn (talk) 17:00, 6 May 2008 (UTC)