>often it's more about social economic / class -- what vehicle they're driving, how they're dressed, are they a race that doesn't typically live in our mostly diverse neighborhood.
My Indian friends are the most racist people I know. It’s all they talk and think about. That was one of the most surprising things to me coming from the South (where I did occasionally come across racists but they were usually excluded socially because of their views, unlike PoC Bay Area residents, who get a blank check to be racist).
This shouldn't be surprising because despite what you are told day-in-day-out by the media, Americans, and Western European society in general, are extremely progressive on race relations, especially compared to other societies around the world.
This. They hate "poor white trash" just as much.