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re: Have any of you been to Santa Fe, Jasper, or Vidor Texas?
Posted on 6/11/20 at 10:17 pm to UnathleticCyclist
Posted on 6/11/20 at 10:17 pm to UnathleticCyclist
I have been through Vidor after dark.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 10:18 pm to KiwiHead
congrats on your privledge
Posted on 6/11/20 at 10:19 pm to UnathleticCyclist
There is a popular saying about Vidor and letting the sun go down.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 10:38 pm to NewIberiaHaircut
There were signs like that in a lot of small cities. I remember the one over Main Street in Greenville growing up
Posted on 6/11/20 at 10:54 pm to UnathleticCyclist
I'm not even from Texas and I've heard of Vidor's reputation.
A black friend of mine from Louisiana used to talk about Denham Springs in the same way.
A black friend of mine from Louisiana used to talk about Denham Springs in the same way.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 11:02 pm to perch
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This one is unusual. I worked in Vidor at the time. Kid died on railroad track, hit by a train. Was at a party the night before, intoxicated, walked home. Next early morning hit by a train. Unusual to pass out (was the rumor) on a railroad track surrounded by big ditches, not wake up when the train sees you & is blowing the horn, then get hit & presumably die. Was he dead before he was it? Did someone place him there? What happened when he left the party? Probably never know. Thing was he was very popular among his HS classmates. But Vidor does have done backwoods people still roaming around.
This one is unusual. I worked in Vidor at the time. Kid died on railroad track, hit by a train. Was at a party the night before, intoxicated, walked home. Next early morning hit by a train. Unusual to pass out (was the rumor) on a railroad track surrounded by big ditches, not wake up when the train sees you & is blowing the horn, then get hit & presumably die. Was he dead before he was it? Did someone place him there? What happened when he left the party? Probably never know. Thing was he was very popular among his HS classmates. But Vidor does have done backwoods people still roaming around.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 11:16 pm to UnathleticCyclist
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Santa Fe Independent School Dist. v. Doe (2000), was a case heard before the United States Supreme Court. It ruled that a policy permitting student-led, student-initiated prayer at high school football games violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
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Posted on 6/11/20 at 11:29 pm to Aces_full
He was one of the most popular kids in the school, as with most of the black students we had when I was growing up.
But you’re right, like I said we still have some of the trash lying around - same as a lot of other southern small towns.
But you’re right, like I said we still have some of the trash lying around - same as a lot of other southern small towns.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 11:42 pm to UnathleticCyclist
Family in Jasper. Parents lived in Vidor.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 12:02 am to UnathleticCyclist
I just consider those towns part of Louisiana tbh.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 12:03 am to nugget
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Or it was just a really big stronghold for the KKK
This. Vidor is very racist. When they put a fence up around section 8 housing in Vidor many of the residents started calling it their "zoo"
Posted on 6/12/20 at 12:51 am to UnathleticCyclist
I did a job at a compressor station outside of Jasper at the same time as the KKK rally on the town square. I have a bunch of pictures from it. Texas Rangers mounted on horses and shite. It was an interesting thing to experience. That was at the time that fellow got dragged behind a truck.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 1:04 am to perch
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I remember the one over Main Street in Greenville growing up
Posted on 6/12/20 at 6:53 am to lovethetigers7
I was raised in vidor. Lived there for 20 years. It was bad in the 60s and 70s. The clan had a book store across from the Baptist church on main. Hell I remember having Rocks thrown at our bus in Beaumont because we were from vidor..
Posted on 6/12/20 at 7:16 am to UnathleticCyclist
All I know is my grandparents that lived in DeRidder LOVED a BBQ joint in Jasper and we had to go every time we visited.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 7:17 am to Zappas Stache
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in vidor. I never saw anything overtly racists
Dude they literally had a sign warning a certain racial slur to not let the sun set on their backs in vidor.
Black comedian named Darryl Wright has an awesome story about performing in a Klan bar in Vidor.
Then goes on to say how they made him an honorary member of the klan with a signed confederate flag shirt
Posted on 6/12/20 at 7:34 am to Zappas Stache
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I never saw anything overtly racists
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but the black guys on my teams usually didn't go with us when we played in vidor.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 7:39 am to UnathleticCyclist
Vidor has a great Dairy Queen.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 7:46 am to X123F45
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had a sign warning a certain racial slur to not let the sun set on their arses in vidor.
FIFY this is true
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the zoo
Much turmoil, protesting and Klan rallies when they brought in the first resident
Now it's full of White Privilege Texas Monthly
Posted on 6/12/20 at 7:53 am to lovethetigers7
I’ve been to Vidor, went there to see where King Vidor was born, didn’t know anything else about the place.
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