Most of the poor were poor because they were labeled niggers or greasers or hillbillies or canucks or spics. They belonged to despised, powerless groups. There was no way the antipoverty strategists could see the importance of this factor. They knew about it theoretically, but they had not been there themselves. They didn't know where it was at. If they had gotten together with their "clients" in the poor communities from the start, things might have been different.
