I'm thinking it might be the Keys?! Where else would there be bus access so infrequently.
On a different note, here in Phoenix, the homeless in our area are typically white. They look older, but it could just be the aging that occurs from living on the street. There are usually half a dozen hanging around the shopping center where we have lunch. Some are begging. Some are just enjoying the shade.
...and she obviously hasn’t been to S Africa or Brazil. Poverty is “relative” and US poverty is middle class to the rest of the world. Our poverty is supported by welfare and free medical and food...which increases the lack of need to work. The third world gets no such financial support.
I noticed all the white homeless in Pheonix too.
I was told that because there was no agriculture there historically, there were never any mass importation of black people to the area, and as a result the rate of black people today overall is very low.