California
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1950 | 1197 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1980 | 1756 | 0 | 70 | |||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 2316 | 2145 | 5 | 11 | 49 | 140 | 36 | |
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Violence Towards Newcomers
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Hispanic
Comments
“There has always been the rumor that the only
Mexican family that attempted to settle in Chester in
the 1950s was run out of town on pain of death. The
town was completely white, except for one exception,
when I attended school there in the 1950s-60s. A
recent visit there shows that racial demographics have
changed very little, although I did spot a Mexican
family here and there.”
-former resident of Chester