BTW, I went to the City Journal site for a look at the latest, and found a second article by Dalrymple that is, seriously, another masterpiece. Check it out.
Yes, it is a marvelous article. Incidentally, I once ran a very large residential facility for the serious and persistently mentally ill. I took a whole city block of "shot shacks" and rehabilitated them along with the homeless mentally ill and chemically dependent. I had hoped by having dwelling units of five with the accoutrements of a kitchen and so forth to obtain a resumption of what I called "family living."
Much to my shock, I found most the residents never had any experience with family living, could not cook, could not shop for balanced meals and could not manage money except to purchase drugs and alcohol. It was a demoralizing experience since I hoped to run a dynamically oriented psychotherapeutically excelllent facility but ended up doing "habilitation" on an educational model.
Dalymple is absolutely correct. Note, that his "underclass" studies in UK and France are almost all white, but the underclass here is almost all minority. Notwithstanding these racial differences the population characteristics for the underclass including welfare are exactly the same with only a few exceptions.