Minnesota
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?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 1990 | 13132 | 13028 | 8 | 3 | ||||
| 2000 | 13594 | 13336 | 15 | 4 | ||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- German Protestant
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A former resident emailed us: ” I was born there in 1961 and lived there until I went to college. The town sounded a siren twice a day during all of that time. There was noon whistle and a siren sounded one hour before sundown. The kids in my neighborhood would always say, “it’s time for the niggers to go home”. The irony of that statement is that we only had one African
American in town and she was adopted by a white family. About the time I entered high school a Vietnamese family moved to New Ulm and they ran a restaurant there. I used to play tennis with them and they often told me how hard it was to live there.”