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Which fanbase has the most quality per capita Italian demographic?

Posted on 6/9/22 at 10:57 am
Posted by Harry Rex Vonner
American southerner
Member since Nov 2013
35959 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 10:57 am
It's Arkansas


No, Joe Namath is not Italian, he's Hungarian, they of the Goulash. Goulash is not Italian, I'll just add in for those who've been in prison for 55 years or so, or in a coma for that long. It's Hungarian. I like it, but it's not Italian.


Harry Rex Vonner is like 1% Italian, and my BGFF piggilicious is even more than that.

There's an excellent demographic of Italians in Tontitown, Arkansas (Springdale) and Conway County. Others elsewhere I'm sure, and my Arkansas friends will make those known to you.

Tontitown is home to the annual Tontitown Grape Festival, an August event that precedes the excitement for Razorback football. The Italian food at this festival is world class. This August will be the 123rd Tontitown Grape Festival.



1BigTigerFan, you are cordially invited to the Tontitown Grape Festival, because those baws in T-town found out you had a hand in whacking Billy Bats. So come on up and we've got you a meeting with some boys who want to induct you into the secret club, supposedly





Posted by ColoradoAg
Colorado
Member since Sep 2011
22440 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 10:58 am to
You should have no problem getting NIL money from the mob
Posted by Smokeyone
Maryville Tn
Member since Jul 2016
16302 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 11:07 am to
Arkansas also has, per the SPLC, the largest group of active klansmen with 1,500 members. That should be around 1,000 government informants working at the federal, state, city, and county level. And 400 LARPers, journalist, folks looking to sell books, etc…. And 390 fake keyboard klansmen. The 10 actual white supremacy believers run the Clinton library.
Posted by BhamBlazeDog
Birmingham
Member since Aug 2018
3791 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 11:08 am to
I don't think you realize how many Italians are in Louisiana. There are also a ton in the MS Delta and in Bham. I've never really even heard of there being Italians in Arky.
Posted by paperwasp
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Member since Sep 2014
23415 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 11:14 am to
quote:

1BigTigerFan, you are cordially invited to the Tontitown Grape Festival

Is it wrong that upon reading the title of this post, I also immediately thought of Big Dan?

Posted by Buster83
Member since Aug 2021
3527 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 11:15 am to
You come up with some weird posts but they are usually entertaining

Posted by piggilicious
Member since Jan 2011
37299 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 11:18 am to
quote:

Tontitown is home to the annual Tontitown Grape Festival, an August event that precedes the excitement for Razorback football. The Italian food at this festival is world class. This August will be the 123rd Tontitown Grape Festival.


I haven’t been in years but I loved it.

Also, Fathers Day weekend Saturday:

Ticket’s go on sale at 12pm today!
-no they don’t, I copied this, I’m sure you’d never have known -

The members of St. Joseph's Church, Catholic Point Community, Center Ridge
are pleased to offer our traditional "the Original" Homemade Sausage & Spaghetti supper. The dinner is online presale-order, and drive/thru pickup only- there are 1500 dinners available; Saturday, June 18 2-7 pm. Please use the following link to reserve your dinner:
LINK /

I’m gonna be on vacation then I did get a box from their spring dinner, I guess that’ll have to do me til next year.

Oh and

quote:

Harry Rex Vonner is like 1% Italian, and my BGFF piggilicious is even more than that.


50%er here
This post was edited on 6/9/22 at 11:28 am
Posted by TouchdownTony
Central Alabama
Member since Apr 2016
9775 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 11:23 am to
There a loads of Italians in B'ham.
Came over to work the mines when iron ore was making B'ham.
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
119836 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 11:35 am to
Kentucky is mostly italian.
Posted by bigDgator
Dallas, TX
Member since Oct 2008
42024 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 11:48 am to
So Florida isn't a bunch of guidos with hair gel? The rant has been lying to me all these years? I'm gonna need to take an ancestry dna test.
Posted by Nos7610
Member since Oct 2021
117 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 11:54 am to
Not sure what the breakdown is but I do know that College Station and Bryan are filled with a number Sicilian families, my family being one of them. We've been here going on 5 generations now.
Posted by rebelrouser
Columbia, SC
Member since Feb 2013
10757 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 11:57 am to
New Orleans is full of Italian Americans. They got treated like crap there. Mississippi surprisingly has a lot too. I would put LA then MS for the south.
Posted by 1BIGTigerFan
100,000 posts
Member since Jan 2007
49454 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 12:04 pm to
quote:

1BigTigerFan, you are cordially invited to the Tontitown Grape Festival

I'm in.


BTW, I'm 75% Italian from my mother's side.
Posted by mouse_cop
The South
Member since Aug 2019
2875 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 12:04 pm to
quote:

Tontitown is home to the annual Tontitown Grape Festival, an August event that precedes the excitement for Razorback football. The Italian food at this festival is world class. This August will be the 123rd Tontitown Grape Festival.



It's always interesting to me to learn about how cultures immigrating to the US can blend their cuisine with the local fare. I'd love to hear about how the Italians who migrated to Arkansas have incorporated the local delicacy of roadkill into their cuisine. Roadkill lasagna? Roadkill parmesan?
Posted by LSUrme
CTC
Member since Oct 2005
5335 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 12:16 pm to
Rutgiz
Posted by lewis and herschel
Member since Nov 2009
11363 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 12:33 pm to
Tonitown was great in my early days calling on WalMarts HQ.
Posted by KnuteMiles
Member since Jan 2005
447 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 12:39 pm to
The Mafia's roots (in America) are in New Orleans.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
91147 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 3:04 pm to
Makes sense. Italians love them some gabagool
Posted by TutHillTiger
Mississippi Alabama
Member since Sep 2010
43700 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 3:24 pm to
Dude damn near everyone in Arkansas is related to me and zero Italians.
Posted by TheSwineAssault
The Delta
Member since Apr 2010
1623 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 5:38 pm to
The Delta region has some wonderful Italian farm families. Also….HOT SPRINGS was the Chicago Italian mob’s Southern headquarters back in the day. Al Capone spent his winters there. There is even a gangster museum. …it’s one of the reasons MLB spring training began in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Babe Ruth’s longest home run happened there and the ball landed in the alligator farm.
This post was edited on 6/9/22 at 5:39 pm
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