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and from family support
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and they are thrown into the maelstrom,
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into the chaos--sometimes a creative chaos,
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but nonetheless, the perception was a dangerous chaos that was urban life.
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The result of all of this was that
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revolution becomes seen as an extension of purse snatching.
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In fact, some of the bad social science from the 1960s
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in trying to explain the riots in Detroit and places like that said,
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"Well, you've got a lot of poor people coming from Alabama and Arkansas,"
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Which is certainly the case,
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"Or from South and North Carolina
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move up to Detroit