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re: What is the story with Vidor Texas?
Posted on 6/6/23 at 11:38 am to billjamin
Posted on 6/6/23 at 11:38 am to billjamin
quote:
All the census data disagrees with that.
Vidor itself is still mostly white but it's a small town surrounded by areas with plenty of diversity. The Beaumont metro, which includes Vidor, is nearly 40% black and Beaumont itself is nearly 50% black
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Posted on 6/6/23 at 11:39 am to sidewalkside
quote:
It's not a myth. It happened. Google it
I did. No results.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 11:40 am to stout
steve page
Posted on 6/6/23 at 11:41 am to lovethetigers7
quote:
There are a lot of Hispanics there, so I wouldn’t say it’s 95% white. But for sure at least 90%
Close
Posted on 6/6/23 at 11:42 am to stout
sounds like the white sheet baws have some work to do
Posted on 6/6/23 at 11:50 am to GreatLakesTiger24
quote:
I liked Beaumont
woah
X2
I did some work in the Beaumont, Port Arthur, Port Neches, and Sabine Pass area. Gotta say, I found it all depressing and shitty. Port Arthur was god awful
Posted on 6/6/23 at 11:53 am to Smoke Ring
You’re not wrong lol
Posted on 6/6/23 at 11:56 am to TIGERHOLD
Vidor is a drag.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:02 pm to idlewatcher
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It was up for years!
Pretty sure it is still up. Maybe a different version.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:03 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
quote:
Raped while dying’ billboard
I remember that!
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:16 pm to TIGERHOLD
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:27 pm to TIGERHOLD
Just a rough area with oil field stuff, lots of trucks, oil workers and people who work outside on industrial stuff. Rough baws. Lots of places I see the truck in yard is more than the house. Think Urban cowboy and Guilleys on steroids.
This post was edited on 6/6/23 at 12:31 pm
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:53 pm to billjamin
This is it now, I work in this area and you better have everything secure before you go to sleep.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 12:58 pm to Dragula
quote:
Town full of Southern Democrats aka Biden Country
LOL, what? I can not think of a place in Southeast Texas that would be more anti-Biden than Vidor TX. Even his minority base there is primarily country people who trend towards conservative.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:09 pm to stout
quote:
there are different races now living in Vidor including blacks, Indians/Asians, Mexicans, etc
Is there still racism there? Yes of course but probably no worse than the racism we see from Dems in CA or NY.
Yep. I've been a few times for meetings and I virtually everybody I met with was hispanic. Vidor ain't pretty but I feel safer there than various liberal paradises.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:13 pm to TIGERHOLD
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I liked Beaumont
This is the first time I’ve ever seen this phrase
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:14 pm to ShaneTheLegLechler
The pappadeaux used to be my go-to stop for food on many a RGV-BR road trip
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:25 pm to 427Nova
I know nothing about Vidor except what I read on here, and a funny little thing that happened when I passed through Vidor a few months ago.
Me and my buddy were driving from Corpus to Louisiana on a Sunday evening. We left straight from church in the Corpus area and were dressed like it. I had on khaki pants and a light blue collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
We decided to stop for ice cream after a weekend full of grilled meats and beer. A quick phone search said that the next ice cream locale was the Dairy Queen in Vidor.
Well, a DQ sounded just fine, so we pulled onto the Main Street of Vidor.
It was about 7:00 pm or so on a Sunday, and the DQ was packed. There was a line around the block for the drive thru!
Damn! We had that envie for ice cream, so we pulled into the grocery store behind it, a place called Market Basket, which looked like a Winn Dixie from the 1980’s.
We noticed something strange right away. Although there were no customers in the store, there were 3 check out lanes open, with 6 or 8 high school aged students working them.
They were all white and didn’t have any tattoos or unusual piercings, and they looked “clean cut” for lack of a better term.
My buddy and I started looking around the store, and pretty soon a female manager in her 40’s came up to us.
She said to us in a hurried way, “Are you corporate? We are goin to fix that.”
We both said, “Um, what?” She replied, “That rattle you hear in the freezer fan. We’re waiting for a part to come in.”
“Uh huh. Well, we’re just here for some ice cream.”
“Oh, so you don’t work for corporate?”
Strangely enough my buddy does in fact work for a corporation at the main office, so this caused us to pause a second. We figured out what she meant and laughed a little and said no, we’re just traveling through.
I don’t think she believed us, maybe because of our slight hesitation. She might have thought we were secret shoppers or doing a Sunday inspection.
When she saw that we were getting individual pint sized ice creams, she said quickly, “Oh, let me get you some spoons, and she hurried over to her deli section and brought us back some spoons and napkins.
Man, I felt like a king! I decided to play along and said, “I expect to see that fan has been fixed when we come here again next week.”
She looked at me nervously, and I said, “I’m only joking! We really don’t work for corporate and we really did just stop for ice cream!”
Overall, I truly got the impression that this was a lily white, Mayberry type of town. I knew nothing about the demographics until I saw this thread.
Me and my buddy were driving from Corpus to Louisiana on a Sunday evening. We left straight from church in the Corpus area and were dressed like it. I had on khaki pants and a light blue collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
We decided to stop for ice cream after a weekend full of grilled meats and beer. A quick phone search said that the next ice cream locale was the Dairy Queen in Vidor.
Well, a DQ sounded just fine, so we pulled onto the Main Street of Vidor.
It was about 7:00 pm or so on a Sunday, and the DQ was packed. There was a line around the block for the drive thru!
Damn! We had that envie for ice cream, so we pulled into the grocery store behind it, a place called Market Basket, which looked like a Winn Dixie from the 1980’s.
We noticed something strange right away. Although there were no customers in the store, there were 3 check out lanes open, with 6 or 8 high school aged students working them.
They were all white and didn’t have any tattoos or unusual piercings, and they looked “clean cut” for lack of a better term.
My buddy and I started looking around the store, and pretty soon a female manager in her 40’s came up to us.
She said to us in a hurried way, “Are you corporate? We are goin to fix that.”
We both said, “Um, what?” She replied, “That rattle you hear in the freezer fan. We’re waiting for a part to come in.”
“Uh huh. Well, we’re just here for some ice cream.”
“Oh, so you don’t work for corporate?”
Strangely enough my buddy does in fact work for a corporation at the main office, so this caused us to pause a second. We figured out what she meant and laughed a little and said no, we’re just traveling through.
I don’t think she believed us, maybe because of our slight hesitation. She might have thought we were secret shoppers or doing a Sunday inspection.
When she saw that we were getting individual pint sized ice creams, she said quickly, “Oh, let me get you some spoons, and she hurried over to her deli section and brought us back some spoons and napkins.
Man, I felt like a king! I decided to play along and said, “I expect to see that fan has been fixed when we come here again next week.”
She looked at me nervously, and I said, “I’m only joking! We really don’t work for corporate and we really did just stop for ice cream!”
Overall, I truly got the impression that this was a lily white, Mayberry type of town. I knew nothing about the demographics until I saw this thread.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:26 pm to TIGERHOLD
It's always been known as a place not welcoming of blacks. It cemented this reputation in 1998 when 3 white men drug an older black man behind their truck until he died.
Posted on 6/6/23 at 1:28 pm to sdc74
quote:
Raped while dying’ billboard
I remember that
Pretty sure that was just before Beaumont, not Vidor.
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