Thankfully here in NJ our cities are becoming very Hispanic, and they don’t panhandle. Something about their macho culture prohibits a man from begging for money for nothing (I’m not kidding).
At one intersection in Newark over the summer I came upon three characters at a red light: an Asian (from the subcontinent) selling flowers, a Hispanic selling bottled water from a cooler, and a black guy simply asking for money.
THAT is the future of urban America, until there are no more blacks. In Jersey City in particular, Asians and Hispanics will be the future population (and neither has “white guilt”).
Yes, I live in a nicer mobile home park and probably 75%+ of my neighbors are Hispanic. Have never seen a beggar and almost every male has a job or a business and MUCH nicer cars than I have at this point in time.
Do they replace the beggars or merely dilute the beggars?
That is interesting, and actually a hopeful view.
I am a volunteer with the homeless and have yet to see a Mexican come in for the free meal.
Of course, they have jobs,
Hispanics are funny about that, rarely do I see one panhandling. They will sell tamales or something. They will however get on government assistance, use the ER for medical care and not pay and so on. Many seem to not have a problem with that.