I don't know if it ever happened. I'm sure they probably checked to make sure your mother and father were both Italian. It was probably a line added to make Goodfellas more interesting.
They are gonna have to eventually end up mixing things up if they want "their thing" to stay around. The full blooded Italian gene pool is slowly shrinking (as is every caucasian gene pool) as interracial screwing is accepted more and more from the northeast as well as the rest of the country (minus we here in the south).
For instance, I am Half Italian, Half Cajun. If I were to be a criminal, why would I partner up with LCN if I knew they were going to make some borderline retarded person because he has more Italian blood in him than I do? LCN is losing a lot of power in that way in my opinion.
You've made this point before and, like before, it doesn't really hold up. The LCN benefits from having non-Italian associates without having to make them. The LCN doing away with one of the core rules that forms it's identity would only further ruin it's already crumbling hegemony.
Are family members of mobsters that flip considered fair game for retaliation? Were family members of Al D'Arco, Gaspipe Casso, Joe Bonanno, Sal Vitale, Sammy Gravano, Tommy Ricciardi, Phil Leonetti, Joe Valachi, etc... murdered?
Any family member, male or female, that isn't in the life is generally considered off limits as far the American mob is concerned.
Of course, it wasn't long ago that Bonanno acting boss Anthony Urso though it may be time to revisit that rule. In a taped conversation he talked about how the ever-growing number of turncoats had to stop and that one way to do it would be to "wipe out the family" of a defector.
