True, but correction; it is "dem dagos" this accurate pronunciation comes from my now dead 'Uncle Frangi' the union muscle, born in Sicily, who knocked me out, cold, for saying the word 'dago' at his daughter's Wedding.
Regardless of the fact that my Grandmother and Grandfather came from Sicily, and if you look at me and my "grand" Roman nose, I'm either a dago or a Jew {I have passed, for a short time, when I dated a Jewish American Princess in my yute}.