Wow! Man, I bet you have got some great stories to tell about your life! I love to hear about history from those who lived through it. God bless (from NC myself. Southern pride!)
These old news Clips are gold. Even if we found out certain things aren't true years later they are still gold just for the fact this is what we believed at the time
Im from Covington, I was around 20 when all that was happening! I used to mess around with some chics in Monroe, Walnut Grove & Loganville back then! Met my daughters mother in Jersey & they live in Social Circle
the only real "Mafia" in the south was Carlos Marcella and his small family but that's been over. Most of this is just small-time organized crime, not the actual mafia. Makes for good headlines and a click though.
They aren’t claiming to be Italian the media dubbed them the Dixie mafia. But they were organized crime and operated very similar to the mafia families in the south. Besides the Marcello family you had the Tampa mafia, you had the Dallas mafia and the Maceo in Houston area. There were also smaller mafia factions in Shreveport and even Birmingham had a family until 1930s. They all worked together and with the local Dixie mafia groups. There was also the Cracker Mob that ran organized crime in central Florida based out of Orlando. Let’s see…there was also the Southland Syndicate in Dallas and the Dixie mob group in Biloxi they were very influenced by the Marcello family. The NO family was the most powerful in different eras but they certainly were not the only mafia or organized crime Mob in the south.
Everyone knows that and no one ever claims it's the real mob. It was a bunch of criminals that were loosely connected and did business together. The Dixie mafia was just a nickname not an actual group.
@@srb2591 I disagree. They were individual local mobs in different cities or regions that were dubbed the Dixie Mafia. And they would work together on occasion. That part was the “loosely organized” part. But the individual gangs or mobs were just like the mafia where they dominated organized crime in a given area with hierarchy and chain of command and little different but actually not too different from the structure smaller cosa nostra families used.
@@michaele2148 they weren't mobs like the mafia it was bands of criminals that sometimes worked together it didn't matter what you ethnic background was like the Italians. It was sometimes a single guy or sometimes a group it wasn't "mobs". There is a 80s movie with Christopher Walken and Sean Penn based on a gang in PA that were supposedly part of the ring. The media called them Dixie Mafia when in reality it was country boy criminals that would work together if it fits there needs there was no hierarchy
@@srb2591 we disagree. The “band of criminals” in Biloxi ran organized crime in the town like a traditional mob. The band of criminals in north Georgia the same way. The Central Florida “Cr@cker mob” even had a made LCN member and they ran organized crime in Orlando just like the mafia did in Tampa. Oh and how can I forget the Southland Syndicate in Dallas… they were modeled after the Chicago mob. So yes some little rings like in rural PA getting dubbed the Dixie mafia were more like smugglers and drug dealers not really organized crime… but some of the groups were very much organized crime mobs that functioned very much like cosa nostra groups and even worked with them on traditional gambling loan shark and prostitution rackets. The stateline mob too! Trust me they were more then a “band of criminals”
@@howlinwulf yeah maybe if it’s wholesale up-front and you’re doing the heavy lifting bringing it in yourself. If not then that 10k bird gonna be 70% mannitol and boric flakes.
@@josephmalecki I'm sure there are still elements of it. In Biloxi you got the casinos and they're were big into those and the strip clubs, brothels, loan sharking and of course drugs there. They had truckstop/brothels in eastern N.C. they stole gas/fuel and made big money. Look up the Lonely Hearts scam Kirksey Nix ran from prison. They could earn $.
They was from Texas miss Alabama Louisiana ga fla they was i a MO that they went by even if ga never had sit downs with other crews. The mo was simply this in small southern towns who ever is the basic main criminal mover and shaker usaly owned a bar club etc and behind the scenes drugs chop shops gambling prob the most serious thing was murder ,aroson,beating intimidate for higher but every town same mo the main guy got to vice and rackets goin will be partners with local mayor or some leaders of the town mainly a corrupt sheriff chief of police etcs so the mo besides money was keeping thw said town quite smooth no bodys in the street keep up citizens thinking or whatever feeling like they.have a good town to raise a fam in. Theyd be rumers of some guy who is wanted by the cops or probation is buried somewhere or chopped up qnd fed to pigs. If new business or something moves to town they would prevent it unless they ain't going to Change anything it was all about keeping things comfortable and steady and consistent my grandpa and his bestfriend was in it the other guy was Davis Dawrdy gangster all the way and everybody new it used ambulances followed by corrupt sheriffs moving new shipment of drugs,or a body that needs disappear etc. Them instead of missing person you have a wanted criminal on the run and invent charges he is runnin from they never get cought lol
A highway patrol Sargent from Mississippi started the term, Dixie Mafia... There wasn't a anything like a organized group. Unless you put the democRatic party and law enforcement in there.
I don’t doubt it Georgia has an extremely corrupt legal system. To this day. Judges and state police there all involved. It wouldn’t surprise me if the other southern states were just as bad. Look what they tried to do to Trump in Georgia. Really they are the modern day Dixie Mafia
Been waiting on some Dixie Mafia content. I think I requested it about a year ago, thanks for actually coming through with the plug. 😂
I started drinking every time he says Dixie Mafia. I’ll be passing out soon. I’m two minutes in
I live in Gwinnett county Lawrenceville .I was a block away when Larry flynt n his lawyer was shot.
Wow! Man, I bet you have got some great stories to tell about your life! I love to hear about history from those who lived through it. God bless (from NC myself. Southern pride!)
@@RustyAShackleford thank u rusty I migght have a few if I remember any I will send them to u.godbless
Now how good is this channel? You've got everything! Best mob channel on RUclips.
These old news Clips are gold. Even if we found out certain things aren't true years later they are still gold just for the fact this is what we believed at the time
*Reminds me of the Swayze movie "Next of Kin."*
I’m from Monroe. I remember this. Dark days.
Im from Covington, I was around 20 when all that was happening! I used to mess around with some chics in Monroe, Walnut Grove & Loganville back then! Met my daughters mother in Jersey & they live in Social Circle
Home town memories along weet on in the early 70s in Walton and barrow county's back then
Id never heard of the duxie mafia until i watched justified. And I'm from the south
There's no way the media could tell the facts of a case like this today, without their political input and without blaming Trump for something.
the only real "Mafia" in the south was Carlos Marcella and his small family but that's been over. Most of this is just small-time organized crime, not the actual mafia. Makes for good headlines and a click though.
They aren’t claiming to be Italian the media dubbed them the Dixie mafia. But they were organized crime and operated very similar to the mafia families in the south. Besides the Marcello family you had the Tampa mafia, you had the Dallas mafia and the Maceo in Houston area. There were also smaller mafia factions in Shreveport and even Birmingham had a family until 1930s. They all worked together and with the local Dixie mafia groups. There was also the Cracker Mob that ran organized crime in central Florida based out of Orlando. Let’s see…there was also the Southland Syndicate in Dallas and the Dixie mob group in Biloxi they were very influenced by the Marcello family. The NO family was the most powerful in different eras but they certainly were not the only mafia or organized crime Mob in the south.
Everyone knows that and no one ever claims it's the real mob. It was a bunch of criminals that were loosely connected and did business together. The Dixie mafia was just a nickname not an actual group.
@@srb2591 I disagree. They were individual local mobs in different cities or regions that were dubbed the Dixie Mafia. And they would work together on occasion. That part was the “loosely organized” part. But the individual gangs or mobs were just like the mafia where they dominated organized crime in a given area with hierarchy and chain of command and little different but actually not too different from the structure smaller cosa nostra families used.
@@michaele2148 they weren't mobs like the mafia it was bands of criminals that sometimes worked together it didn't matter what you ethnic background was like the Italians. It was sometimes a single guy or sometimes a group it wasn't "mobs". There is a 80s movie with Christopher Walken and Sean Penn based on a gang in PA that were supposedly part of the ring. The media called them Dixie Mafia when in reality it was country boy criminals that would work together if it fits there needs there was no hierarchy
@@srb2591 we disagree. The “band of criminals” in Biloxi ran organized crime in the town like a traditional mob. The band of criminals in north Georgia the same way. The Central Florida “Cr@cker mob” even had a made LCN member and they ran organized crime in Orlando just like the mafia did in Tampa. Oh and how can I forget the Southland Syndicate in Dallas… they were modeled after the Chicago mob. So yes some little rings like in rural PA getting dubbed the Dixie mafia were more like smugglers and drug dealers not really organized crime… but some of the groups were very much organized crime mobs that functioned very much like cosa nostra groups and even worked with them on traditional gambling loan shark and prostitution rackets. The stateline mob too! Trust me they were more then a “band of criminals”
700lbs of coke is worth about $30,000,000 not $300,000,000.
you know they always exaggerate
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10 k foe 2.2 pounds maybe less.
@@howlinwulf yeah maybe if it’s wholesale up-front and you’re doing the heavy lifting bringing it in yourself.
If not then that 10k bird gonna be 70% mannitol and boric flakes.
@@bulldaggerwatkins190 a fine connoisseur my fine sir 🧊🙂
Lou Nuland bomb maker?
Fascinating.
So this is what real journalism looks like wow
The Stateline Syndicate.
I didn't believe the witnesses
Yeah they were pretty thin. Seemed like? Just a few bitter people along with a few opportunist!
@@CoreyT127 I knew lots of these people from prison.
Where’s Billy Sunday Birt? He was the real ringleader of Georgias Dixie mafia. The good ole days
He’s dead now. I’m kin to the Birts. I’m a Lee. We’re cousins
Was Benny Binion a part of the Dixie Mob?
No,I never saw him at the meetings.
@@tracyshoemake9686 😂
No. Binion had his own organization
Thought it was in Mississippi
It was strong in Biloxi, but also in Florida, s.c., eastern n.c., Georgia, other southern states.
@@dtogo4286 Is it still around. Im from NJ. Rt outside philly and cherry hill. So I know all about it. But the Dixie mafia. Has always intrigued me..
@@josephmalecki I'm sure there are still elements of it. In Biloxi you got the casinos and they're were big into those and the strip clubs, brothels, loan sharking and of course drugs there. They had truckstop/brothels in eastern N.C. they stole gas/fuel and made big money. Look up the Lonely Hearts scam Kirksey Nix ran from prison. They could earn $.
Reminds me of the chaos that was going on in Rocksprings Wyoming in the 70’s
They was from Texas miss Alabama Louisiana ga fla they was i a MO that they went by even if ga never had sit downs with other crews. The mo was simply this in small southern towns who ever is the basic main criminal mover and shaker usaly owned a bar club etc and behind the scenes drugs chop shops gambling prob the most serious thing was murder ,aroson,beating intimidate for higher but every town same mo the main guy got to vice and rackets goin will be partners with local mayor or some leaders of the town mainly a corrupt sheriff chief of police etcs so the mo besides money was keeping thw said town quite smooth no bodys in the street keep up citizens thinking or whatever feeling like they.have a good town to raise a fam in. Theyd be rumers of some guy who is wanted by the cops or probation is buried somewhere or chopped up qnd fed to pigs. If new business or something moves to town they would prevent it unless they ain't going to Change anything it was all about keeping things comfortable and steady and consistent my grandpa and his bestfriend was in it the other guy was Davis Dawrdy gangster all the way and everybody new it used ambulances followed by corrupt sheriffs moving new shipment of drugs,or a body that needs disappear etc. Them instead of missing person you have a wanted criminal on the run and invent charges he is runnin from they never get cought lol
A highway patrol Sargent from Mississippi started the term, Dixie Mafia... There wasn't a anything like a organized group. Unless you put the democRatic party and law enforcement in there.
I don’t doubt it Georgia has an extremely corrupt legal system. To this day. Judges and state police there all involved. It wouldn’t surprise me if the other southern states were just as bad. Look what they tried to do to Trump in Georgia. Really they are the modern day Dixie Mafia
Today, most of those Democrats are now RepubliCANTs. Truth.