sentences:  Due to this divided national loyalty, it would be years before many of the early residents of Ybor City became American citizens, and many never saw reason to apply at all.In the largely insular community, immigrants could live surrounded by their own culture, so attachment to their countries of origin remained high, especially in the first generation.The population of Ybor City diversified through the late 1880s and early 1890s as an influx of Italian immigrants began to arrive.