Texas
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 2283 | 1 | ||||||
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| 1950 | 3992 | 1 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Reputation
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
In an email, a student informed us of her dissertation on the expansion of the cotton industry into West Texas, including the Lower Rio Grande Valley. This student explained that this area was attractive to whites as a space free of blacks.