It’s not just an urban, black phenomenon. More than 3/4s of the children of welfare grow up as another generation on assistance. We’ve been paying just our least able to have children for generations now (while they pass on their cultural dysfunction as well), and our country now has an average 2-digit IQ.
It is Societal Expectations. Despite the poverty, everyone here is expected to be polite. You are expected to be cordial and friendly. If you sling a fit in the IGA, you will find out who is armed right quick like. And lots of people are going heeled.
I’m involved with a feeding program for the schools. The food is either donated or comes from grants. We aren’t there to ask why. We are just there to help. It’s the code of the hills.