According to the text, research regarding the location of new toxic waste dumps indicates that
A. most dumps are located in White, middle-class neighborhoods.
B. where dumps are placed is largely unrelated to race and class.
C. the location of hazardous wastes near minority neighborhoods is too frequent to be occurring by chance.
D. it is not really an issue since such dumps are now illegal.
Answer: C
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