I agree, TH. I was raised with them and the old families are the salt of the earth. But, we are experiencing an increase in gang warfare, which seems to be all over the country. Seems like every year a new group infiltrates the inner cities. Jamacans, Bloods, Crypts, Mexican Mafia, etc., and of course my cousins up there in the New Jersey, NY, Pa. areas...LOL And of course that toddling town of Chicago. <ggg> Actually the only time we know of anything is on the nightly news.
The old families are like many nationalities, where each generation of males works at the same job as their father did, much like the workers up in your neck of the woods. Like the movie Rudy, where the dad wanted his boys to follow him in the steel mills and Rudy had his heart set on going to Notre Dame.
Colt
