So the answer is, they do find enough new recruits for replacement.
Try making that statement in twenty or thirty years. By which time virtually every "Italian American" will be fifth, sixth and seventh generation, born and raised in the suburbs to upper middle class parents.
You have to grow up dirt poor in a tough neighborhood to become a true gangster. There have certainly been a few exceptions over the years. But they're few and far between.
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
