Regional dietary preference based upon availability and style of preparation? I'm a southerner, love fried chicken, preferably fried in bacon grease in a cast iron skillet. Watermelon is a great summer treat that is grown in abundance down here. Nearly all black people in the United States came out of the south and brought a love of the same foods we love along with them. Those that ever left, that is.
Have you read Black Rednecks and White Liberals?
The author attributes nearly all of current black culture problems to their picking up the worst of southern culture and bringing it with them when they left the south.
Being of southern redneck extraction, I found his stereotyping troubling but it was very interesting reading.