Junior has a line about most people in his Jersey town migrating from Avelino. I think in the episode where he's going to funerals of people he barely knows to get out of house arrest.
This show does seem to emphasize a Neapolitan influence in Jersey. I don't know of one character that identifies as Sicilian. Paulie mentions Sicilians during pillow talk with his Italian hooker but that's about it. Tony reveals Silvio is Calabrese in the scene where he's yelling at him about Italian pride and Gary Cooper.
Yep. A lot of neapolitans. But you’re right they never really revealed where exactly in Italy everyone’s ancestors were from. That was just their inner circle. There are a lot of Sicilians, calabrese etc. in New Jersey. I actually liked that the show kind of strayed away from the predictable and overdone “Sicilian American gangsters†topic. We always saw it in movies and shows but the mafia was made up of much more types of southern Italians than just Sicilians.
