I accidentally spent my first ever Thanksgiving with a family of Trump supporters and I’m thankful for it

Anastasia Miari
9 min readNov 25, 2020

“Did y’all see Melania’s dress the other day?” was the first clue.

Two English girls, driving through Texas

It was 2019, pre-mask wearing, pre-travel bans, pre-covid and the forthcoming US election was still an entire year away. We were two British girls on a five-week road trip, snaking through the B roads of the southern…

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Anastasia Miari

Freelance journalist writing about travel, the environment, food and life for The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times and The Telegraph.