[andy_card]

You have it backwards. Rich neighborhoods are created by people that are honest and hard working; people that would not mug someone simply because they themselves are failures.

There are delinquents in every neighborhood. Many of the kids in my neighborhood (median home price = $1.8 million) are as dishonest and lazy as those you'll find in the poorest slums. But their parents are rich, so they don't go around robbing folks for $20. I agree that culture is very important. But so is poverty.

[PhilipFreneau]

I grew up in a poor neighborhood, and the only "crime" I recall was an occasional fist fight, and corporal punishment by parents and teachers. Of course, fist fights and corporal punishment were not considered crimes in those days. Conservatism ruled, not left-wing extremism.

[aristeides]

But their parents are rich, so they don't go around robbing folks for $20. I agree that culture is very important. But so is poverty.

When I grew up in the South Bronx in the 1950's, people were poor. Kids may have committed crimes, but they didn't go around robbing people.

[wardaddy]

Many of the kids in my neighborhood (median home price = $1.8 million)

Man besides spouting so much liberal excuse crap, you are also a braggart...or a posuer....who knows.

BTW, rich guy, which neighborhood would you prefer to walk around in at night? Your alleged tony environs or the hood?

Nearly all of my ancestors were poor and very few if any used their poverty as an excuse to behave as predators.

Since you're so open-minded, why not take your assumed lily white foolish arse over to the South Bronx at night next time you're in NYC and stroll around. While they are busy stomping your rather naive butt, you can go on and on about how you understand "their poverty makes them do it".

Geez....I do believe you must have been a govt. apartchik...to be sure.