Interesting bunch those independent guys out in San Jose. Same with the boys from back East, NYC or not. I'd say the biggest reason why feasible families weren't set out here was due to not enough Italian-American males out here and the fact many were unwillingly to work with non-Italian in particular, Mexican males. With the San Jose family, with enough violence, they could have been associated with the top of the Northern Mexicans. Absolute violence towards any successor criminal group who even dared to engage in crime would have been a driving point in a West Coast Italian gang.

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