But the Telangana region was predominantly poor, highly feudal and lacking in all socioeconomic indicators.
Mr. Klinenberg discovered that while many predominantly poor neighborhoods fared badly, others, also poor, didn't.
The campers are predominantly poor, ranging in age from 6 to 17, and all have psychiatric conditions.
Sectarian violence had already started to erupt in the capital but his neighborhood of New Baghdad, a predominantly poor Shiite area to the south, still seemed safe.
A lone Popeye's Fried Chicken joint sits forlornly amid the galleries and home furnishing stores, reminding you that this was, until recently, a predominantly poor, black area.
Dr. Thernstrom and others also say that economic integration has no relevance for large, predominantly poor urban school districts like Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington.
But if jitong are less visible, the underlying beliefs that prevailed when Taiwan was a predominantly poor, rural society are surprisingly resilient.
After all, a central problem with the current system is that insurance is expensive and the people who lack insurance are predominantly poor.
Most of the perpetrators are teenagers, and most of the victims are elderly men or women in predominantly poor black neighbourhoods.
Senator Roth said, "I find it appalling that anyone would take advantage of a system designed to serve children who are predominantly poor and disabled".
This predominantly poor suburb of Johannesburg sprang into the world's headlines during the protests and bloody repression of the apartheid era.
