![]() Of those, 218, or 99.5%, kept out African Americans. Research confirms the formal and informal racial policies of 219 of them. In Illinois, for example, 502 towns were all white or almost so, decade after decade many still are. African Americans surely never uprooted by choice, and investigation reveals that most white towns are so by design. This is a misunderstood phenomenon, especially as manifested in the North. ![]() "Sundown suburbs" developed a little later, most between 19, many of which kept out not only African Americans but also Jews. ![]() Between 18, thousands of towns across the United States drove out their black populations or took steps to forbid African Americans from living in them, creating "sundown towns," so named because many marked their city limits with signs typically reading, "Nigger, Don't Let The Sun Go Down On You In-." In addition, some towns in the West drove out or kept out Chinese Americans, and a few excluded Native Americans or Mexican Americans. ![]()
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