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It's not just being wealthy, a lot of it has to do with racism and flat out xenophobia. In the area I live in I've actually heard comments within earshot regarding minorities, "If he wasn't that color he wouldn't have been given any slack." (That's a polite way of putting it.) "I'm not racist but...(insert your own passive aggressive b/s line) And when regarding immigrants even the Hispanics in my area look down their noses at the ones coming from Mexico, referring to them as "wetb@cks" when describing a Mexican immigrant.
I think it's going to take at least two generations for this attitude to die down until the residents get over this negative outlook.
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