Today, the well-to-do, predominantly Jewish community includes a recent influx of Syrian and Russian Jews.

Still, the changing demographics worry many residents, who recognize that racial ghettoization, even in well-to-do suburban communities, benefits no one.

"We were concerned that all of the Score locations were in well-to-do communities," Mr. Mitchell said.

"Can anybody find me a suburban community, a well-to-do community, that has portable trailers in their schoolyards?"

The last remnants of these codes can be found in a few well-to-do communities on Long Island.

Unlike Willie, Jack grew up in a well-to-do, aristocratic community.

In this well-to-do community, public shelters were quickly emptied as families moved in with friends or rented temporary homes.

"Huntington is a fairly well-to-do community and people who live in nice areas don't want public housing and minorities in their midst."

Madison, a well-to-do community of new brick housing developments on former cotton fields, is one of the fastest-growing towns in the Southeast.

Greenwich, a well-to-do community few would associate with the problem of hunger, saw an increase in demand at its food bank.