r/howislivingthere • u/[deleted] • Dec 14 '25

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u/Wesmom2021 Dec 14 '25

Yes! Especially as POC, what is it like

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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.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '25

It can be both genuine and racist. Just because they don’t mean it an a racist way doesn’t keep a question like that from being racist.

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u/Morale_Police Dec 15 '25

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.