Dixie Mafia
| Founded | Late 1960s |
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| Founding location | Biloxi, Mississippi, United States |
| Years active | c. 1960s–present |
| Territory | Southeastern United States |
| Ethnicity | White Southerner |
| Activities | Illegal gambling, drug trafficking, prostitution, robbery, murder, arson, extortion, fraud, bootlegging, rumrunning, police corruption, and political corruption |
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The Dixie Mafia, or the Dixie Mob, originally referred to a loosely connected criminal organization that was based in Biloxi, Mississippi and which operated primarily throughout the Southern United States from the 1960s to the 1980s. It engaged in burglary, theft, robbery and fencing. Their activities eventually expanded into the illegal trade in tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and methamphetamine, as well as contract killings and blackmail. Some of the more well known members were Mike Gillich and Kirksey Nix.
It is now a general term for independent gangs and criminal networks composed of white southerners who engage in a variety of criminal activities, from drug dealing, pimping, gambling, robberies and burglaries to contract killings.