Mafiosi publicly attribute members to neutral territory to mask true affiliations

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• Mafia affiliation is tied to residence, not portable status or letters. (similarity 0.84)
• Mafiosi chose sides according to profit, not ideology or class loyalty (similarity 0.83)
• Mafia territory is jurisdiction-like but does not coincide with official boundaries (similarity 0.82)
• The mafia first appears in official records as an established force (similarity 0.80)
• The literature’s conflicting definitions of mafiosi as middlemen, guards, and thugs defy synthesis. (similarity 0.80)
• Mafiosi can organize as well or as badly as ordinary economic actors (similarity 0.79)
• Elite police rule requires admitting neutral masses to bolster itself (similarity 0.78)
• Ethnic specificity makes mafia trademarks hard to counterfeit (similarity 0.78)