When he arrived in Turin, in 1953, the 25-year-old southerner had to win the confidence of northern Italians wary of fast-talking Neapolitans.

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If I'm a 40-year-old southerner, born in 1973 and raising a family in one of these states, this view by four justices on the Supreme Court in 2013 of what I might do is insulting and demeaning.

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