I think you&#x27;re probably right, the inverse is seen in the US.<p>In the South fast-food fried chicken is sometimes a marker for not-yet-gentrified areas of a city, but often it isn&#x27;t. Fried chicken is an ingrained cultural tradition of the south, for both whites and blacks, and if you count any place selling fried chicken in your analysis you&#x27;re actually likely to see <i>more</i> fried chicken in richer areas. At least that&#x27;s my anecdotal observation. I live in a section of town that&#x27;s becoming gentrified and while chains like Zaxby&#x27;s and Krystal are slowly disappearing, but pretty much every &quot;fine dining&quot; and even casual dining (i.e. one step over Olive garden) place that has some southern-cuisine related riff serves fried chicken