Georgia
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- County
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Strongly Democratic
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | 5,606 | 166 | ||||||
| 1900 | 6,285 | 181 | ||||||
| 1910 | 5,562 | 156 | ||||||
| 1920 | 5,746 | 289 | ||||||
| 1930 | 6,331 | 164 | ||||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
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| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 15,050 | 119 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- English
- Irish
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“I believe that it was Rabun County (county seat is the
City of Clayton) in the Blue Ridge Mountains of
northeast Georgia that once had a roadside billboard
that proclaimed, “Nigger, don’t let the sun set on you
in Rabun County.” I think that the sign was gone by
1975. There are bound to be some local old timers
that would know the sign’s history, who sponsored it
and when it was erected, when and why it came down,
etc.”
-former Georgia resident
As Rabun County has a steady (albeit small) black
population, it may be that only a few or even one town
allowed black residents.