re: Anyone Got Any Good Dixie Mafia Stories?

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Look at interstates
As waterways and it's easy to figure out the nodes. The Italians already controlled Mobile and New Orleans but the interior was all good Ole boys territory

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Most of the organized crime in most of the south was gangs of crooked politicians. Florida and the Gulf Coast had some Italian mafia but the rest of the south was controlled by crooked elected officials. The fact that Italians were catholic kept them out of places like Atlanta and Charlotte. That and it was hard to buy politicians to look the other way when the politicians already ran the crime. The dixie mafia was a loose consortium of criminals with out the structure of typical crime syndicates. There was very little tribute paid to bosses and killing one another and one another's family and stealing from one another was acceptable practice. The fact that most "members" were Scotch-Irish meant they did not accept any authority that they could ignore...unlike most OC syndicates made up of immigrants accustomed to being told what to do and who to pay.

My grandfather and uncle were small time gangsters. They would have been big time but they were the type who would make a pile of money and have a big time till they were broke and had do it again. They of course were bootleggers because who wasn't? They owned a bar in the neighborhood where Atlantic Station is in Atlanta today. They ran a high stake poker game in that bar for years. They also ran a roaming high stakes poker game all over north Georgia and north east Alabama. When I was about 8 years old I would run errands for the players in the game at the bar. They would play for DAYS. They also ran chicken fights in North Georgia. I sold beer at the chicken fights. They had an auto auction in Atlanta...it only lasted about a year. I seriously doubt any car was ever sold at that auction that was not stolen. I had the concessions at the auction as a kid. They bought the stuff, I sold it and they took 25% after expenses. It was a helluva gig for a 10 year old. They also ran a used car lot for years. I was the detail boy. I washed, waxed and cleaned cars for $5 each. We would take them to auctions around Atlanta and they had a crew who bid them up as high as possible. They were into all manner of petty crimes. I was a kid so I was carried along for the ride. Almost every adult I knew other than my parents and teachers from the age of about 5, when I can remember, until I was 16 or so was some kind of petty criminal, con man, pimp or hooker. None of them kicked anything up to anyone, none of them asked anyone for permission to commit a crime and none of them gave a tinkers damn about any kind of code of silence.

They were all assholes...many of them weren't just providing for their families, many of them were preying on the weak. The things I have witnessed myself from those people would make most people ask "what the frick is wrong with poor white trash in the south"? Luckily my father, for whatever reason, learned a trade, had a strong work ethic lacking in most of our family, and some sense of right and wrong or I would have no doubt followed in the family tradition.