It may be easy to sum up the debate with the stereotype that pumpkin pie is eaten by white people, predominantly in the Northeast, and sweet potato pie is eaten by Black people, mainly in the South.

Most importantly, do you have sweet potato pie or pumpkin? For Black folks this may seem like an easy answer, but it’s actually not that simple. There are quite a few people out there who prefer ...

Unfortunately, for Black people in the American South ... as partly the reason for the preference for sweet potato pie over pumpkin. Moreover, pumpkins are emblematic of the mostly white ...

And that pretty much ruined pumpkin pies for me ... raised in rural Tennessee and calls sweet potato pie "the sacred dessert of Black people." Searching history would lead one to assume that ...