The article isn't great but your analysis is probably worse. No per Capita analysis? No income analysis? Only two cities? This is actually a challenging quest

The article isn't great but your analysis is probably worse. No per Capita analysis? No income analysis? Only two cities? This is actually a challenging question to answer. Thankfully other people have done research and we can reference that if we actually want to know the answer, rather than just prove our priors to ourselves.