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Originally Posted by ArchmageXin
Plus, having large families lead to the classic "welfare queen" argument anyway.
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I've been looking at some data from the biennial
General Social Survey. While I've been looking at gun ownership patterns, I happened to tabulate the relationship between race and family size. The differences are quite small. The "welfare queen" canard was invented by Reagan to mobilize racist whites by characterizing welfare recipients as largely made up of lazy blacks. A friend who taught social policy told me in the mid-1970s that he began every semester by pointing out that most poor are not black, and most blacks are not poor. That remains true today.