The Tofu Curtain is a cultural or socioeconomic divide between two geographic regions of Massachusetts and the people who reside in them, with the concept of tofu symbolizing certain lifestyles and political leanings. The term was coined to identify trends on either side of a county line in the Pioneer Valley along the Connecticut River in Massachusetts, and has also been widely used similarly with regards to gentrifying neighborhoods in Melbourne, Australia. While the Tofu Curtain most often refers to certain regions of Victoria and Western Massachusetts, other tofu curtains have been named along similar socioeconomic, educational, and/or ethno-racial divides in various locations around the globe.