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* During the 19th and early 20th century, immigration to the US consisted largely of poor whites such as Poles, Jews, Italians and Irish (the law didn't allow much non-white immigration). As a result, ghetto gangs were made up of whites. There are still white Irish gangs in certain cities.
** There's also "Polish mafia" and whatnot gangs in Chicago's southwest side. Though apparently they work with Mexican gangs.
* White gangsters often crop up in Latino gangs such as the Mexican Mafia. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_<!-- 22Pegleg22_Morgan%22Pegleg%22_Morgan Joe "Pegleg" Morgan]], the non-Mexican cofounder of La eMe, was Croatian-American, but grew up in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. White members helped Latino gangs negotiate deals with skinhead gangs who would not do deals with non-whites. Today, white and Latino gangs traditionally ally against the blacks. And technically, Latinos and whites are lumped together in racial studies anyway. -->
** Infamous leader of the Los Angeles-area Tooner Ville Rifa 13 and condemned murder [http://www.streetgangs.com/news/timothy-mcghee-arrested Timothy McGhee] would be another example.
** Latino is not a race as much as it is an identity; While the average Latino is half white/half native, Asian and White Latinos who are also members of gangs aren't unheard of.
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