Especially consider the great Irish/Italian Family Feud, which apparently continues unabated despite 5 generations of intense intermarriage. Whitey? His annointed role, to work with the (then)Irish Catholic FBI to rub out the Italian Mob, of course. In this three-way ass-kicking contest, no one seemed to notice the Cali Cartel!
Both sides in the all-Catholic feud have managed to overlook the fact that a coalition of African/Americans, wealthy Liberals, many Jewish, and huge numbers of legal and illegal Hispanics have left them in the dust, and as the easy election of Princess Fauxcahontas might illustrate, are the people who actually run the state, with the cheap Catholic crooks cut out of the real action, probably still running numbers!
The Bulgers, like any smart family in civil disputes, had a man in each camp. Now, about Mennino.....
It's not like the old days. A lot of those wealthy Massachusetts liberals nowadays are BC grads, mostly Irish and Catholic.