There was once a thread where people ranked their top 10 families, of all time, and the years which they were most powerful. In these lists, nearly all of the families and their respective time periods were understandably out of New York and Chicago. So, what would the top 10 outside of NY and Chicago be?

"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea