You're wrong, Peter. I've just finished two long air trips* and skin colors were varied as the rainbow. As for automobile trips -- I can't speak for the UK, but in the US skin color makes no difference. The choice is driving or flying -- train travel is close to nonexistent and you DON'T want to take a long-distance bus.

On these trips I met Tlingits, Athabascans, Blacks, Caucasians, Japanese, Inuits, Yupiks, Aleuts, and folks from India. Except for the Germans none of them seemed particularily wealthy and indeed some were fairly obviously of "lower economic status."





*one from Salt Lake City of DC and another from Pocatello to Juneau. Round trips, I must add.