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More often than not, terrorists (as opposed to insurgents) come from the middle class or above. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/24/opinions/sri-lanka-terrorists-educated-middle-class-bergen/index.html covers some of those cases and explains the dynamics behind it.
Someone's social status is orthogonal to the pressures that drive people to be hopeless about society. In fact, poor people tend to have better community, which directly helps people not turn to terrible decisions.
It should be no surprise what so ever. It takes both a lack of support and a lack of availability. It's only natural that people who have the least emotional reason to stay sane are the ones more likely to snap.