from Southern Italy in the 20th century. Most of the Italians who initially moved to Argentina were farmers from the north, originating from regions such as Piedmont, Liguria, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Lombardy. Already entered the 20th century, due to the nascent industrialization of Northern Italy, immigration patterns shifted to rural Southern Italy, especially Campania, Calabria and Sicily. Immigrants from northern Italy settled mainly in rural areas, while those from the south preferred large cities. Of the 2,386,181 Italians who arrived in Argentina between 1876 and 1930, 47% (1,116,369) came from Southern Italy, 41% (988,235) from Northern Italy and 12% from Central Italy (281,577). The Italian regions from which most of the immigrants came were Piedmont (in the north) and Calabria (in the south). Calabrian immigrants have always arrived in large numbers and their migration has not changed much over time. On the other hand, immigrants from Sicily, practically non-existent until the beginning of the 1900s, began to arrive in large numbers from the year 1895 to the point that, around 1914, one in six immigrants was Sicilian. In the 1950s more than 65% of Italian immigrants came from the south: 30% were from Calabria, 15% from Campania and 12% from Sicily. Of the remaining 35%, 21% came from central-southern regions, in particular Abruzzo and Molise (in this case 14%), while 13% came from the north, mainly from Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Of the immigrants who arrived between 1876 and 1915, 16.90% were from Piedmont, 13.20% from Calabria, 11.10% from Sicily, 10.40% from Lombardy, 8.20% from Marche, 7.50% from Campania, 7.20% from Veneto and 3.20% from Abruzzo and Molise, which then constituted a single region. Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio and Emilia-Romagna, in central Italy, were the regions that contributed the least to immigration to Argentina. In Argentine slang, tano (from Napulitano, "Neapolitan") is still used for all people of Italian descent although it originally meant inhabitants of the former independent state the Kingdom of Naples. The assumption that emigration from cities was negligible has an important exception. Naples went from being the capital of its own kingdom in 1860 to being just another large city in Italy. The loss of bureaucratic jobs and the subsequently declining financial situation led to high unemployment. This caused a massive departure from Naples and southern Italy to Argentina. According to a 1990 study, the high proportion of returnees can show a positive or negative correlation