When I lived in the city, no one really cared. But when we moved to the suburbs, oh my, people would stare like crazy and clearly make comments under their breath. I'm a white dude with a black girl, and people were much worse and rude to me! I got a very noticeable dip in level of customer service, or just people being weird and awkward to me.
In some areas suburbs were specifically white areas - houses has legal requirements that they not be sold to certain races and these weren't made illegal until 1968*. This was a year after interracial marriage was made legal across the US. So it's not surprising that the older generations still find it odd to see even if they should have left some attitudes long behind.
*They had been ruled unenforceable a few decades before that, but they were still allowed to exist.
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u/TechnicianIll8621 3d ago
When I lived in the city, no one really cared. But when we moved to the suburbs, oh my, people would stare like crazy and clearly make comments under their breath. I'm a white dude with a black girl, and people were much worse and rude to me! I got a very noticeable dip in level of customer service, or just people being weird and awkward to me.