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{{quote|'''Finian''': America's full of gangsters, you know.<br />
'''Sharon''': I thought you said it was full of millionaires.<br />
'''Finian''': That depends on which newspaper you read.|'''''[[Finian's Rainbow]]'''''}}
 
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== Real Life ==
* A Brooklyn newspaper back during the era gave us this poem (parodying part of "The Star-Spangled Banner"):
{{quote| And the pistols' red glare<br />
Bombs bursting in air<br />
Gave proof through the night<br />
That Chicago's still there. }}
* [[South of the Border|Mexico]] is often viewed as this from time to time. Particularly by people caught up in the the current hostilities, which blur the line between a gang war and a civil war!