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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1970 | 16810 | 16764 | 8 | |||||
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| 1990 | 16192 | 88 | ||||||
| 2000 | 17422 | 16291 | 155 | 359 | 58 | 1089 | 559 | 55 |
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Method of Exclusion
- Reputation
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
An amateur historian said of Nederland, Lumberton, Port Neches, and Groves, “Had someone come into any of them in the ’30s, I don’t know what would have happened,” but later denied that anything would have happened. He also identified Nederland as a white flight town.
Two people, including an retired educator and administrator, have identified Nederland as being all-white on purpose.
A blog by a noted Texas writer mentions there was once a sign that read, “Nigger, don’t let the sun set on you here.”