Food defines culture only by shallow minded thinking, usually on the left or in academia. What people eat is as superficial as you can get in terms of looking at culture.
There are no democrat politicians who get elected by admitting to their anti-American views. Clinton ran as a conservative. Obama ran as a populist who favored conservative policies including tax cuts. Of course, what these guys say depends on who their audience is at any given moment.
Actually food is one of the most deep roots of culture. What they have available to eat and how they eat it is one of the magnets that draw a random collection into an actual group. But more importantly for this discussion it shows how very much we are NOT one culture. If we can’t decide if BBQ is tomato, vinegar, mustard or rub how the hell can we have one culture? We have literally dozens of identifiable culture groups in this country. We’ve got North and South, we’ve got coastal and fly-over, city country, snow and no snow (which is different than North and South as those largely divide along Civil War lines and there is snow in that South), tech and non-tech, all the substantial racial groups get at least one. And a good chunk of those divides have existed from the very earliest days of the nation. Simply put anybody thinking we have ever had one culture in this country has not bothered to pay the slightest bit of attention.
Clinton did not run as a conservative, now you’re just making up crap off the top of your head. His two biggest campaign promises were gays in the military and socialized medicine. And Obama did NOT favor tax cuts, again the opposite, he ran on undoing Bush’s tax cuts and hitting the rich to make them pay for “Bush’s wars”. Obama was also publicly aligned with the “God damn America” preacher, clearly and obviously running on anti-American views.
Really, you need to stop talking out your rear. Every statement is embarrassingly full of it.