Why is south italy poor and north italy rich?

Answer 1

woaaah I studied this in geog last year. And I really would love to help you but I've forgotten everything!!! All i remember is the Mezzogiorno is the poor part (places like Naples in the South) because the climate is much hotter than the north and it's harder to grow vegetation there. ummmm that's about it!

Answer 2

it's not true that in south italy people are poor, are only less rich then in the north,
you can't say poor

Answer 3

because they have different mentality. I'm from north Italy. A southern Italian woman criticized us northerns telling we consider job to be too much important, her southern husbans lives and works here and when he needs to go on vacation he has to ask permission. On the contrary in the south when they want to go on vacation they go, stopping to work, saying to them family is more important than job. ( to them don't go to work and spend time on the beaches is a way to love their families. they say...)You can see the result, southern Italians have to go up north to look for a job because they have nothing. We northerners love our families too and to us is important to give them love, money, education. Since southern Italians are lazy and don't like working, they will always be poor and their only satisfaction in life is to bash on us northerns.

Answer 4

Southern Italy is predominantly an agricultural economy whereas the North is mainly Industrial.

Answer 5

Northern Italy is industrialised therefore relatively wealthy.
Southern Italy is primarily agricultural. Not financially wealthy but rich in food produce.

Answer 6

Who better to answer this question than Antonio Gramsci:

The Northern bourgeoisie has subjugated the South of Italy and the Islands, and reduced them to exploitable colonies; by emancipating itself from capitalist slavery, the Northern proletariat will emancipate the Southern peasant masses enslaved to the banks and the parasitic industry of the North. The economic and political regeneration of the peasants should not be sought in a division of uncultivated or poorly cultivated lands, but in the solidarity of the industrial proletariat. This in turn needs the solidarity of the peasantry and has an "interest" in ensuring that capitalism is not reborn economically from landed property; that Southern Italy and the Islands do not become a military base for capitalist counterrevolution. By introducing workers' control over industry, the proletariat will orient industry to the production of agricultural machinery for the peasants, clothing and footwear for the peasants, electrical lighting for the peasants, and will prevent industry and the banks from exploiting the peasants and subjecting them as slaves to the strongrooms. By smashing the factory autocracy, by smashing the oppressive apparatus of the capitalist State and setting up a workers' State that will subject the capitalists to the law of useful labour, the workers will smash all the chains that bind the peasant to his poverty and desperation. By setting up a workers' dictatorship and taking over the industries and banks, the proletariat will swing the enormous weight of the State bureaucracy behind the peasants in their struggle against the landowners, against the elements and against poverty. The proletariat will provide the peasants with credit, set up cooperatives, guarantee security of person and property against looters and carry out public works of reclamation and irrigation. It will do all this because an increase in agricultural production is in its interests; because to win and keep the solidarity of the peasants is in its interests; because it is in its interests to orient industrial production to work which will promote peace and brotherhood between town and countryside, between North and South.

Answer 7

The North is the industrial centre . The South is mainly agriculture and wine- producing. I am given to understand that "The Family" prefer the pace of life in the South (when they are not working that is,)

Answer 8

Industry vs Agriculture and historical actions: More organized countries before unification had strong influence. Political problems/behavior.
Better weather required less organization and less commited societies.

Answer 9

the rich live in the north and the poor live in the south
simple really
a bit like you

Answer 10

the ones in the north are greedy bastards