Most towns in several US regions were sundown towns by design
Evidence
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 121 “There is reason to believe that more than half of all towns in Oregon, Indiana, Ohio, the Cumberlands, the Ozarks, and diverse other areas were also all-white on purpose.” Loewen, Sundown Towns, 4–5. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 978
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Most towns in major US regions were exclusionary all-white by design. (similarity 0.89)
- Most Midwest cities were sundown towns by 1930 (similarity 0.85)
- Whites-only counties outside the South nearly doubled between 1890 and 1930 (similarity 0.84)
- Western states are white today partly because sundown towns expelled black residents (similarity 0.81)
- Non-southern counties with no black residents nearly doubled from 1890 to 1930 (similarity 0.81)