I have talked about this before, but it really all depends on 1) the area you're in and 2) what kinds of class signals you emanate. I'm a well-dressed white guy

I have talked about this before, but it really all depends on 1) the area you're in and 2) what kinds of class signals you emanate. I'm a well-dressed white guy in Seattle, and I've never had any trouble buying pseudoephedrine: they just check my ID and then give it to me. Meanwhile I have relatives in a depressed part of the midwest who, with the best love in the world, are visibly lower-class, and they say they get hassled and roadblocked constantly trying to get it. It's pretty naked classism and rather fucked up.