re: Have any of you been to Santa Fe, Jasper, or Vidor Texas?

Santa Fe high GOAT

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Sante Fe doest belong on THIS list

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It’s on the list because of this story. It’s not really the case anymore. The greater Houston metro is a lot different

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was shrimping season in Texas, and things were getting ugly. In the late 1970s and early 80s, a group of Vietnamese refugees had fled a humanitarian crisis at home and legally resettled in the Galveston Bay area. In order to start making their way, many of them took up shrimp fishing—much to the dismay of some locals, who saw them as competition on the water.
“Someone will have to get out of this business,” explained a white industry big wig, “because you will not be able to make a living. There are only so many shrimp out in that bay and the more shrimpers you have out there the less each boat is able to net.”
Tensions came to a head in 1979, when a fistfight broke out between white and Vietnamese fishermen, and a white crabber was shot and killed. Hours later, Vietnamese boats were set aflame and a crab plant that employed a number of Vietnamese workers became a bombing target. The two Vietnamese men accused of the shooting were acquitted on self-defense grounds a few months later. The crabber’s father said, “As long as there’s one asian left in a fishing town on this Gulf Coast, there’s going to be trouble. There’s going to be war.” He was right about the war part.
The incident caught the attention of the Texas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. They descended on Galveston Bay in 1981 to get rid of the Vietnamese once and for all.

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I haven’t spent much time in Texas and in 2014 I went to LSU vs Wisky in Reliant with some friends. That Sunday morning driving back I stopped in Vidor and went in a McDonald’s to get a couple of biscuits.
It’s fairly crowded and I am standing in line and something just seemed out of place but I couldn’t put my finger on it right away. It wasn’t until I had my order and was walking out that it dawned on me what was going on here. I called my buddy a little ways down the road and told man I just
Saw something weird in this little town I stopped in. He told me right away you were in Vidor.

Only stopped in Vidor to piss a couple times.

Stopped at the Whataburger in Jasper a couple times when I’ve taken the back roads to Austin. Has that “old white men sitting around sipping coffee” feel, but there were a few black people around.

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Santa Fe, Jasper, or Vidor Texas

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Let you in on a little secret about black folk in small racist towns.

The town may hate the group, but they love the man.

They'll walk through fire for their black neighbor... Then call him a slur in traffic.

It's a weird duality I've never understood.

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I was born and raised in Vidor

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me too, I thought I was the only one on here! hah. After living in LA and MS I'm pretty sure there isn't any significant difference in racism in Vidor vs any other largely white area in the south (or even over here in England).