Originally Posted By: Montague

And the way you grow up economically has nothing to do with it. That is more of the romanticized view of the mafia that movies have shown us. I'd say most of the young Italian American who has gotten involved in organized crime since the '80s was born and raised in a comfortable middle class home.

No longer is it the "You either become a cop, a firefighter or a crook" type of world.


Bingo.

Montague, you've managed to answer what the Italian-American prominenti of the Clubs, Societies, NIAF and such are still yelling about.