re: What is the story with Vidor Texas?

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Vidor used to be a sundown town

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In my town (not Vidor) the whistle at the volunteer fire department used to blow every evening at 6 PM. My mother would tell me they were testing it, but I've since read that sundown towns had signals like that to tell black people they had better be off the street by then. So I wonder.