Are certain horrific aspects of catholicism distinctive to that sect specificaly.

[Something completely different]

1) Uneducated : not any more than the North (wanna talk about that guy who started speaking lombard in the EU Parliament?);

My uncle on my fathers side married an Italian, a communist from somewhere near Genua a think. It is from her that I got most stories of the uneducated and conservative South.

2) Unemployed : like the rest of Italy, albeit a little bit more because of shittier politicians;

Weird. The press and almoust everything else creates the image of an Italy divided in a poor South with high unemployment and a rich North with well running economy.

3) Shit infrastructure : same as before;

Meaning that it was shit before aswell? And before what?

4) Mainly agricultural : mainly touristic today;

Yeah, I guess that is obvious. Hardly anyone here doesn`t make a holiday once every 3 to 5 years in Italy. But I always thought that the main tourist attractions were in the North. And that everything south of Neapel is nothing but goats, old people, dry lands and chemical waste fills.

5) Lack of industrialization : yes, in comparison with the North, but still, we have some big industries;

Yeah, Italy is the 8th largest world economy. So is industry from the North finaly starting to move into the South? That could change alot of things there. In Belgium for example the South use to be Industrialised and rich whilest the North was agricultural and poor - then in the 1980s the industry moved to the poor North to profit from the low wages there. Today the South of Belgium is the poor part of the country.

6) controlled by Camorra and 'Ndrangheta : not completely, Campania has problems with Camorra, Calabria has problems with 'Ndrangheta and Sicily has problems with Mafia, but Basilicata (where I live) and Apulia are relatively free of this shit (even though Apulia had Sacra Corona Unita, but it collapsed long ago).
Not to mention that 'Ndrangheta has practically invaded Lombardy.

Is it true that there is a highway being built from Neaple into the region of Calabria that has been under construction since the 1950s and still is no where near to getting finished because mafia involvement with buisnesses, goverment contracts and unions keep messing arround with the plans?

I can imagine that regions having problems with organised crime have a hard time creating a working inferstructure and private economy.

It's really up to you how to grow up in this place!

lol

Isn`t that the case everywhere in this world.