You realize that's all dwarfed by the welfare state that we now have for everyone, right? It's also not the root of the Cuban-American community's success. The

You realize that's all dwarfed by the welfare state that we now have for everyone, right? It's also not the root of the Cuban-American community's success. The earliest waves of migrants were almost all from the middle and upper class. They did correspondingly well in their new home. Wealth is not really a number in your bank account, it's the knowledge and virtues that guide of the process of producing value. If you took everyone in America's money away and started over, the resulting classes would look a lot like today's. Culture is almost everything.