La Sicilia come 51° stato americano?!

[Music] The history of the United States is deeply intertwined with the history of the territories and peoples that over time became the United States, because the expression United States has not always meant the same piece of territory. At first there was talk of the 13 colonies, the first 13 states, and then the

United States expanded and enlarged westward, towards Louisiana, towards Texas, towards California, sometimes as a result of wars, sometimes as a result of treaties. that sometimes the territory was bought following real trade agreements. Well, there was a moment in which people thought and even talked with a certain intensity about the possibility that Sicily, our Sicily, the one

that is now part of Italy, could become an American state, even the fifth American state. Nothing came of it , as we know. But that story says a lot about American history and also about our history. the opening of baseball season unmistakable evidence international human gen projects of your this is

Hello and welcome, welcome to a new video from the Da Costa a Costa channel. Let's start by saying that Sicily would not have become the 51st American state, because this discussion became very heated, especially after the Second World War and at the time Hawaii and Alaska had not yet become American states. We would have been, so we would be because

I am Sicilian and therefore I would also have been in that case members of the 49th American state. But where did this discussion begin and how concrete did it actually become? [Music] Even before the unification of Italy, therefore before 1861, there were regionalist movements in Sicily , movements that called for independence from what was then