I speak about communities places like "Little Italy". Not about presence. Of course you need italians for mafia activity.
Las Vegas from the beginning...
Gambling operartion in 60's,70's,80's was much bigger as traditional "communities". (Dixie, Midwest) ...Cuba, Bahmas, link to European groups. )
Ndrangheta - Frauenfels, Thurgau CH. Maybe only 5 % .... (I believe Cali ~7 or 8 %)
Cosa Nostra / Ndrangheta activity in Allgäu, Germany they are villages. Sometimes you have only a pizzeria. One or two italian families.
East Germany cities like Erfurt. There never exist a closed neighborhood but a strong mafia activity.
CN activity in Africa.
Wholesale drug trading had nothing to do with communities. Nightclub / Redlight activiets had mostly nothing to do with. White Dollar crime ...
another example we know a lot examples for isreali OC networks in Cali. But only 0,1 % Cali population are Isreali-American.
My point is about whether a Mafia family could viably exist and sustain itself in an area with little to no Italian communities. An American Mafia family, to be specific, since groups in Italy are a whole different discussion entirely. I'm not talking about the mob having influence in Vegas or pre-Castro Cuba, since we all no there was no "Las Vegas crime family" or "Cuba crime family."
