I didn't read through so I apologize, but why have like, a family send a small crew of trusted guys down to say, Texas or some of the other old territories and have them set up there? Then slowly recruit from the local pool of thugs and whatnot--as associates? You don't have to send half a family there, send like 10 guys. Not a Capo, take a good, well earning soldier, give some guys to him as a "crew" and send him out to a new territory, and have him recruit other ethnic thugs as associates, and find rackets out there, prey on the local, very local level of politics maybe, too.