You have a point. Another goal is to herd them all into the metropolitan areas where they can be more easily controlled, divested of their firearms, and access even more government services that hook them on dependency.
With generational poverty, it's hard to discern what is the chicken and what is the egg.
In the Native American areas in the west (I'm most familiar with the Cherokee in OK), there are generations of drug and alcohol dependency, broken families, illiteracy/lack of education, and domestic abuse.)
Naturally, these folks are very poor. Smart high school kids are heavily courted and fought over by colleges and universities. They'd have a free ride to about any institution of higher learning they would choose. But only a few are able to break the ties that bind them to that area, even though the opportunities for upward mobility are there.
Having moved to Appalachia I am glad for the opportunities for downward mobility that it gives me. For example, I can go sit on my friends porch in town, drink a beer and talk about things that matter.
The casinos near here are bringing in lots of money. Our local one over the line in OK hires ONLY people of Cherokee linage, so they say.
http://500nations.com/Oklahoma_Casinos_Tribes.asp
Many years ago back in the early 1960s I was at a junk store and found a book on Tibet, with photos of how the people dressed. Very shabby. The owner of the store said he had often seen people from the area come in his store dressed like that, in rags.
That was before Walmart began to bring money into the area as Waltons was still just a mom and pop dime store on the square.