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Related: About this forumIs Vidor, TX Still A Sundown Town?
Vidor, TX is the most well-known Sundown Town in Texas, but what is Vidor like in 2021? And is Vidor still an active Sundown Town?
https://livingbluetx.com/2021/08/vidor-sundown-town/
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Is Vidor, TX Still A Sundown Town? (Original Post)
Shell_Seas
Aug 2021
OP
I've seen. The list is places that were once sundown towns, not necessarily current ones.
Shell_Seas
Aug 2021
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kimbutgar
(21,127 posts)1. Someone posted this link weeks ago about sundown towns
https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/using-the-sundown-towns-database/state-map/
I found out a town I lived in briefly in the early 80s was a sundown town and thinking back I am not surprised to find that out.
I found out a town I lived in briefly in the early 80s was a sundown town and thinking back I am not surprised to find that out.
Shell_Seas
(3,332 posts)4. I've seen. The list is places that were once sundown towns, not necessarily current ones.
Scrivener7
(50,946 posts)2. My town is on that list. 50% of its residents are Black and Latino.
Has been for decades.
The list might not be too reliable.
Deuxcents
(16,181 posts)3. Good grief
My father had an Aunt who lived in Vidor her whole life. No wonder she always came to visit
n we never went there
Im gonna re read this post.. shes been gone many years now but I still have letters she wrote to my dad and he wrote her while in the Marines WWII.. even a couple she is wrote me. I never understood this phrase.. Ill say thanks for the education but.. wow