By the way people are most fascinated by the sicilians ut not the other groups in Italy. To many people its all sicilians or just italians.
That's because of the Godfather. Puzo's mythologizing of Sicilian mobsters in America was hyperbole. Since the 1930s the more Americanized faction of the mob took over. People like Bonanno and Profaci were the sticklers to Sicilian tradition, and we know where they were on the pecking order.
"...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
