[DuncanWaring]

So tell us, then, how Vietnamese immigrants, moving here with literally just the shirts on their backs, moved into the same neighborhoods and sent their kids to the same schools, and have lifted themselves and their kids out of those neighborhoods and into the middle class and to college, to where they no longer need welfare?

In my experience, you can say the same thing about (recent) immigrants from Africa.

[dirtboy]

In my experience, you can say the same thing about (recent) immigrants from Africa.

Agree entirely. So it's not racial. It's cultural.

[Louis Foxwell]

Or, more likely, never took welfare in the first place.