• TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • thejevans@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      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

      • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        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.