[CamB]

I don't disagree - the thing is that the same attitude exists in NZ and Australia (and probably Europe) as I read here - that [pick a minority over-represented in poverty/crime/welfare/etc] are their own worst enemy.

So I feel I can at least draw some conclusions.

(edit) By the same token, the US is so large and (from what I understand) state policies are sufficiently varied that just because someone know how it works in one state doesn't automatically follow that the same applies in another.