I dunno. I think he's from the south, but going by his name, he's Italian. He's a thief. He looked like he was totally down to kill someone in that episode. You have your southern mobs too like the Marcello and Trafficante families, but this dude looked like he was straight out of the sticks. Also, like I said, you had the Elvis impersonator, who Pussy introduced as a "friend of ours". So in Soprano world he could have been made. Hard to say in real life. There had to have been some redneck Italian mobsters in New Orleans through the years. Dallas had a family, too.