Many american cities had or have a cosa nostra presence. But some were more powerful than others.
Many families had to kind if ask permission to bigger families to made new guys or even to kill some made guy.

Could we say that at the top, you have the five families of New York and the Chicago outfit that are the only cosa nostra clans that don’t ask permission to nobody?

I also read that the new orleans family doesn’t answer to nobody.
The detroit partnership, sometime i read that they answer to New York, sometime i read that they answer to chicago.

Top tier: New York Families and Chicago outfit. **maybe new orleans
Mid tier: new jersey, detroit, cleveland, philly, buffalo, st-louis
Low tier: all the other cities