Digital SAT Reading and Writing Practice Question #312

Text 1 During the 1920s, municipal governments across the United States aggressively implemented Euclidean zoning laws. Proponents of these laws argued that separating heavy industrial districts from residential neighborhoods was a vital public health intervention necessary to shield citizens from hazardous pollution and toxic effluents. Text 2 While the rhetoric surrounding 1920s zoning heavily emphasized sanitation, the practical application of these ordinances often belied alternative motives. By explicitly prohibiting multi-family apartments in vast swaths of residential zones, city planners effectively engineered socioeconomic segregation, ensuring that lower-income laborers remained spatially isolated from affluent enclaves under the pretext of 'protecting residential character.' How would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to the primary claim made by the proponents in Text 1?