Did the regional Italian background even matter after the 1930s? Capone was a Neapolitan, so I'm guessing in the Chi it didn't even matter before the '30s. It would seem that money was all that mattered once Masseria and Maranzano were taken out.
"...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
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