Back in the 90s I remember my Steubenville relatives shitting on foreign made cars, but they all drive them now. They've been watching Fox News for decades and have lost their class consciousness.
Honestly it’s probably the economic reality of living in a stagnant republican shithole pegged near the federal minimum wage, where people live payday advance to payday advance (if they even have a job), that forced them to accept the reliability and fuel economy of Asian econo-cars over unreliable gas guzzling American landboats.
I think you put your finger on it. They're unable to see race as anything other than us-versus-them. In their eyes respecting other people's lives must be an affront to their own.
weird how the "all lives matter I'm not racist actually democrats are the real racists they started the kkk" folks parrot almost exactly the same talking points as the out and out white power folks