There's way too much local jingoism on boards like these. And what a thing to get jingoistic about, a bunch of fucking thugs!
I don't get that phenomenon at all, it's fucking weird.
Some of those guys when they talk about their local dying/dead mob family sound like they are rooting for their city's NFL team or something. I call them "cheerleaders" because of this.
I've run into this phenomenon IN REAL LIFE by the way. Seriously, half the people I know from Youngstown (I'm in Columbus, and a lot of Youngstownites have fled here) seem to be weirdly proud of the city's organized crime presence and insist that there's still an all-powerful Youngstown Mafia controlling everything, even though it was destroyed at the end of the 20th century. I tell them there are no made guys left at all, and they retort "hey they just went underground - they WANT you to think they're gone". Others have reacted with apparent
sadness when I give them the "bad news" about the status of the Youngstown Mafia.
Not sure why they have such warm feelings for an organization that essentially raped Youngstown, made the city a punchline of morbid jokes, and caused it to acquire charming nicknames like "Murdertown" and "Crime City, USA".
