migratory patterns
She identifies herself as from South Carolina. Man from Kansas asks “You a red state refugee too?”
It takes two repeats for the meaning of this question to be understandable, so goes the polite laugh and “Sure. Something like that.”
Sometimes things are a little more apolitical, or if they are political they are so indirectly.
“Did you see Nikki Haley was tapped for the UN post?”
“God, I hate that woman.”
And sometimes they are political.