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?
- We Have Data on How it Changed
Census Information
Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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1860 | ||||||||
1870 | ||||||||
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1890 | ||||||||
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1910 | ||||||||
1920 | ||||||||
1930 | ||||||||
1940 | 5918 | 0 | ||||||
1950 | ||||||||
1960 | 9015 | 0 | ||||||
1970 | 9825 | 61 | ||||||
1980 | ||||||||
1990 | 9,977 | 9,347 | 44 | 15 | ||||
2000 | 11,283 | 8,667 | 215 | 83 | ||||
2010 | 12764 | 698 | 91 | 1104 | ||||
2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Asian
Comments
“In Worthington, Armour built a meatpacking plant in the 1960s and had an agreement with the meatpacking union, which Horowitz studied, to transfer workers there from other plants. Some
transfers were going to be black, and the union sent a black and white pair door-to-door to prepare Worthington for this, locating places that would rent
to them, etc. It was successful. Now Worthington has lots of Hmong people.”
-former resident, 2002
“To move workers who are displaced from their jobs in one community to new jobs far away always raises complex problems of adjustment. There was every reason to anticipate that these problems would be
especially severe when Armour & Co. closed an outmoded packinghouse in Kansas City two years ago and moved forty-one Negro workers, with their families, to an all-white town in Minnesota, Worthington.”
-“Planning for Change”. New York Times 26 November 1966. (1 pp.)
According to a Minnesotan, based on the recent increase of minorities and a strong Hispanic presence, smaller neighboring towns now refer to Worthington as “the ghetto.”