[They already did that with the second season of the show, set in the 1970s, where the KC-based “mafia†plays a pivotal role.
Surprisingly none of its members were of Italian decent. They were a melting-pot outfit of Jewish, black, Asian and Anglo-German leaders and hitmen.
It's plausible Italians were running that empire from behind the scenes. The midwest mobs are typically depicted this way in tv and movies. The organization of that KC syndicate in S2 of Fargo resembles that of Nitti's outfit in Road To Perdition. His office was in a typical business highrise.
