Must be quite a shock to see this vulgar return of overt white racism

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68. I grew up in a lumber town in California with no black residents.

It was an old Gold Rush town with place names like 'Negro Hill', 'Negro Hollow' and "Negro Bar', named after the Black miners who arrived in the 1850's. Over the years the Black residents were forced out, moving to San Francisco and LA. Growing up everyone used the other 'N-word' in describing the places I mentioned. Only as I sought answers did I learn of 'restrictive covenants', 'red-lining' and other measures designed to prevent Blacks from residing in my very white town. Black folk passed through, headed toward Lake Tahoe and beyond. The local police, sheriffs and highway patrol encouraged them not to linger. The town is still a dark red bastion of MAGA nonsense. I escaped long ago. There are many towns like this, not all in the deep south.