re: Anyone Got Any Good Dixie Mafia Stories?

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Buford Pusser got the fate he deserved.

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a couple of verses from DBT seems appropriate.
The Drive By Truckers

"The boys from Alabama"

We're gonna take you up to McNairy County, Tennessee
Back in the days when Sheriff Buford Pusser ran things around there
Sheriff Buford Pusser was tryin' to clean up McNairy County, Tennessee
From all them bootleggers that was bringin' crime and corruption
And illegal liquor into his little dry county
And for his troubles, he got ambushed, and his wife was murdered
And his house got blown up, and they made a movie about it called Walking Tall
This is the other side of that story....
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We got friends in jail who can see you through
Boy, don't forget, no matter what you do
Don't piss off the boys from Alabama
You know we won't let it slide
They might find your body in the Tennessee River
Or they might not find it at all
And there'll be no place to run and hide
And your family ain't safe at all
So don't piss off the boys from Alabama
We're keeping an eye on you

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Dixie Mafia operated mostly on the Gulf coast from what I gather. But there used to be a lot of activity on the MS/TN/AL state line area in the 60's 70's as well. I have some stories but I would have to dox people so I won't tell them. But, yeah, some of those establishments back then were crazy.

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shite response, idiot.

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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.

I don’t know if it’s Dixie Mafia related, but my grandfather was from Monroe, Louisiana. During prohibition he would run moonshine that came out of Chicago down through Arkansas, and his leg was Monroe to Picayune, Mississippi. It’s how he met my grandmother.

I got a bunch of stories from my grandpa Bernard. He was Popcorn Sutton’s vice president of Moonshine Operations. In fact he’s the one who snitched on Popcorn to the feds.

Billy Sunday Burt was no joke. His son, Stoney, is a slimeball. If you live in the Winder / Braselton / Jefferson area, there supposedly is more bodies scattered throughout the Little Mulberry river area.

Not sure if it was Dixie Mafia per se, but I have a close friend who told me about a black sheep uncle he had that was heavily involved with facilitating drug trafficking along South Carolina's portion of I-95 from Miami to New York in the late 70's - 80's.

Apparently there was a stretch from Yemassee-Florence where the FBI would successfully stop vehicles loaded down with product and it was creating a bit of a headache for the cartels and NY mob. This guy somehow got in contact with some very dangerous people and set up a "trucking business" that would re-distribute the loads at the SC/GA border and move them along side roads up into the SC/NC border. His efficiency and speed was apparently renowned it made him a lot of money. He employed good old boy drivers who never had anything to worry about if they were to get stopped.

Apparently he was very successful and got out cleanly at first but was later snitched on and went to prison.

Don't know anything about the Dixie Mafia, but Galveston TX had the Maceo family mob'd up (and some of their descendants, the Fertitas)

Always heard the Dixie Mafia was more dangerous to be involved with than the real deal Italians. The Dixie Mafia didn’t really follow a strict code or rules. It was a half arse organized shite show of criminals and when something went south it was everyman for himself.