Why did the Americans not really become entrenched in the state as much as the Italians did with their country? The Italians(Especially the LCN and Ndrangheta) took after the Americans and turned themselves into a multi billion dollar criminal enterprise quickly. You could say that they took it to another level. The Italian Americans trended in the opposite direction as they never saw money like the Italians did when they started to expand their empire and move away from being more agricultural based.