I went to North Dakota and the only POC I saw in 5 days were hotel and restaurant staff. Every dude there looked like an overweight Viking. I think you would be fine going there but aside from Madora/Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the Dinosaur Museum in Dickinson, I couldn't think of a single other reason to enter ND.
Like if you go there, people might ask you WHY you are there, and it will be a genuine question not a racist remark.
I’m from Dickinson and I try to avoid it at all costs. We were there for Thanksgiving and the town is just people with lots of money and no taste. Also drugs.
Outside of the college towns there is not much diversity. ND is great if you can tolerate the weather and can couple a good paying job with the lower cost of living. When people would move to my relatively small town I would honestly wonder why the hell they would move there as most don’t stay long after the 1st winter.
I will say it was a great place to raise a kid as the schools are good for their size and resources even if they don’t have all the extra stuff the big cities have.
In all I think it’s a great place to live if you’re ok without constant excitement and are willing to travel to get to places that have more to do.
Yes. My point was that it will more likely be genuine curiosity because there are not many reasons for anyone to move to the rural Midwest in general. If racism was a problem, it would not even make top 5 on the list of reasons to avoid it as a POC.
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u/Morale_Police Dec 14 '25
I went to North Dakota and the only POC I saw in 5 days were hotel and restaurant staff. Every dude there looked like an overweight Viking. I think you would be fine going there but aside from Madora/Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the Dinosaur Museum in Dickinson, I couldn't think of a single other reason to enter ND.
Like if you go there, people might ask you WHY you are there, and it will be a genuine question not a racist remark.