There's something built into our brains that yearns for variety. We understand this at the personal level. We select friends who are colorful and interesting. We choose different foods. We consider it a mental sickness to become phobic about one thing.
Some towns are sick.
They are all licorice or cherry or orange or lemon. They decide to exclude or discourage certain people or groups. These reactions are rooted in fear or a manic desire for control. Let that industry get crunched by powerful market problems and the whole shebang spins down the tube like a ping-pong ball in a storm sewer. Chattanooga has matured in the past two decades.