The island is large but underpopulated with not even 2 million inhabitants, and inland people were engaged in sheep farming while those who live along the coast work with tourism.
Too poverty for create a native organizated oc gruop.
and calabria?? it was underpopulated and even poorer... i bet the main reason is that sardinia was not part of the kingdom of the two sicilies, the mafia groups were born thanks to favorable historical environment and links with politicians and masonry since the beginning
Sardinia is mostly mountainous and until the 1960s with the explosion of tourism, most of the islanders work was the sheep farming while Calabria still had large cities and some industries,today there are few people that lives in Sardinia that in Calabria.
Tre only difference was that the calabrians used the ransoms for entry in the drug trafficking while the sardinians continue with the kidnapping without invest the money because were various gangs without a verticale structure.
