Before Carmine Galante when to prison, it was alleged that he sent a Bonanno soldier by the surname Forello to Birmingham to corner the drug trafficking trade in that city in the mid 50's, while Galante made inroads into Canada. The Birmingham crime family operated in the mid 1880's to the late 1930's, as Faithful1 has said they were mostly from Ribera, but it was a small family, comparable to a crew size. When Birth of a Nation came out in the late 1910's, they were feeling pressure from the law that once took bribes or looked the other way, but did not do it anymore as a lot of them join the KKK as well as public officials and felt the criminals were a burden to the city, not to mention the Irish gangs that they were feuding with. Many of them fled north to New York, Cleveland, Kansas city and Chicago, or to other southern cities like Tampa and New Orleans during the 1920's. Those that stayed made themselves respectable and made a small fortune during the prohibition period. Yes, Birmingham is located in the bible belt, but even back then there were many drinkers as well those that gambled, and paid a visit to the brothels, notable the one located in Bessemer.