Because it should be a non-issue and not an impactful or driving feature of the film.

That feature of the film moved the status quo in 1967. It seemed like that was the point.

If a film were released in America today that pushed interracial marriage as an issue, most would find it racist because it is not a large issue in the greater culture (for the most part).

That’s my neck of the woods. Not sure about the squatch, but the cro-magnon certainly still dwell in the Albemarle area.

You can tell by the flags they fly on their squatted pickup trucks…