Every large city has its slums, and cities in the Rust Belt also. Usually, they are Black, but there are Hispanic slums also.
I was born in an Industrial town, Ft. Madison, Iowa, that is now part of the Rust Belt, where many of the houses, including the one we used to live in, are boarded up.
When I worked in downtown San Jose, California in the Nineties, I was treated to the sight of drug arrests during my lunch break. The contrasts between the Rich and the Poor - and between the Technical and the Nontechnical was amazing.
This was during the dotcom boom, followed by a bust - that reduced hundreds of Computer companies to five: Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.
Our Software Smarts has gone up tremendously, while our Social Smarts has declined drastically.
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