[rimmont]

The insular attitude of Venetians has been fertile ground for the xenophobic and populist politics of the anti-immigration Northern League party.

It is also fertile ground for self preservation, unlike the suicidal, "cosmopolitan" attitude found elsewhere.

[Map Kernow]

Touche'. I was going to comment on that snide, gratuitous dig at the Venetians in the article's last paragraph, but you did a fine job yourself.