Jay Honeck wrote:

Almost without exception, the very first thing a poor,
inner city family buys, after arriving in town -- ....

Well, one thing is that most of these people didn't "arrive in town." They were
born there. People who have families elsewhere do tend to buy cars when they
can. But people who grew up in large cities frequently don't. Most Manhattanites
don't have cars, for example. Hell, when I hit Atlanta in my youth, it was
several months before I bought a car - hitchhiking and public transportation did
me fine.

George Patterson
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