My experience in the US is that as soon as you leave a densely populated area, the good, interesting food options drop off a cliff. In car dependent suburbia, these are often the best they have
But I've been to plenty of rural areas that have great Mexican restaurants and Hmong restaurants but most of the white people there preferred to eat at an Arby's. Some of those white people were friends and they simultaneously acted like they didn't even know those restaurants existed and as if it were somehow risky to go there.
I'm sure that is related but as my friends were "progressive" Democrats we might need to use a wider definition of what it means to be right wing. Plenty of "progressive" white people still have racist hangups.
Plenty of "progressive" white people still have racist hangups.
Some of them think they aren't racist when they see the world as a series of tourist attractions and try to flex on their dinner guests by bragging about the authentic exotic experiences they had with authentic foreign people while wandering into tourist traps.
My experience in the US is that as soon as you leave a densely populated area, the good, interesting food options drop off a cliff. In car dependent suburbia, these are often the best they have
Sometimes, yeah.
But I've been to plenty of rural areas that have great Mexican restaurants and Hmong restaurants but most of the white people there preferred to eat at an Arby's. Some of those white people were friends and they simultaneously acted like they didn't even know those restaurants existed and as if it were somehow risky to go there.
For those instances, I'd suggest that it has to do with a few factors:
more rural areas tend to be more right leaning,
https://source.washu.edu/2020/02/the-divide-between-us-urban-rural-political-differences-rooted-in-geography/
right leaning people are more likely to be more racist,
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/08/12/deep-divisions-in-americans-views-of-nations-racial-history-and-how-to-address-it/
and right leaning people tend to be more uncomfortable with things they are unfamiliar with
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019188699900135X
I'm sure that is related but as my friends were "progressive" Democrats we might need to use a wider definition of what it means to be right wing. Plenty of "progressive" white people still have racist hangups.
Some of them think they aren't racist when they see the world as a series of tourist attractions and try to flex on their dinner guests by bragging about the authentic exotic experiences they had with authentic foreign people while wandering into tourist traps.
lmao
Oh 100%
Also, people are influenced by the beliefs of their community, even if they don't agree on everything.