than in other areas. Among third and later generations, the
regional dispersion is no doubt even greater but they, too,
are probably heavily concentrated in the Northeast.

The Italians in America are decidedly an urban people;
moreover, they overwhelming favor residence in the larger
cities. A total of 88.2 percent reside in Standard Metropolitan
Statistical Areas, and only 3.6 percent live in smaller cities.
In 1960, each of twelve Standard Metropolitan Statistical
Areas had more than 50,000 people of Italian stock (first and
second generations only). Of these, the New York-New Jersey
consolidated area had the lion's share with a total of 1,531,352.
Next to it was Philadelphia with 248,558, followed in a gradu-
ally decreasing order by the Chicago consolidated area, Boston,
Pittsburgh, Los Angeles-Long Beach, San Francisco-Oakland,
Detroit, Buffalo, Providence, Cleveland, and Rochester. In
terms of the proportion of Italians to the total population, in
1960 New Haven, Connecticut, was first with 15.8 percent,
followed by Waterbury (14.3 percent), Stamford (11.7 percent),
and New Britain (11.1 percent), all in Connecticut.

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