I don&#x27;t think it would be.<p>Yes, the basis for the hypothesis is fried chicken -&gt; black people and craft coffee -&gt; white hipsters.
But that&#x27;s actually what happens with gentrification. Diverse neighbourhoods get plowed over with rich white people.<p>Using race in an analysis doesn&#x27;t make it racist. OP saying they wouldn&#x27;t want to live in the places with fried chicken, in the context above (KFC-&gt;black people) would be.<p>I&#x27;d say the piece itself rides the line. It has a sarcastic tone throughout the piece, more of a &quot;let&#x27;s find out where the gentrification is&quot; than &quot;let&#x27;s go live there&quot;.