“you suddenly want a dog and are a low income quick fix type you just grab what is available, and it won’t be a golden retriever, or a Keeshond, or a lab, so a whole lot of this pit bull stuff is not from careful consideration and in-depth looking.”
Don’t these people read?!?
The majority of dogs they are around are pit bull pets, they slip into their world of dogs, and their world of dogs isn’t like those wonderful dogs that you see in upper middle class homes, they don’t have the money to seek out those great dogs and they sure aren’t seeing them at the dog shelter.
Since those people do a lot of renting of no pet apartments and trailers, and a lot of moving, I would guess that many pit bulls are passed on from friends who are moving.