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A small city in Oklahoma elected a white nationalist. Will it be able to vote him out?
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After growing up in Oklahoma I won't be shocked if they don't vote him out. Although the OKC area is one of two more liberal areas in Oklahoma so that might work against him. In the small town I grew up in our library had a closed door Confederate and KKK museum until the 90's. African Americans weren't allowed in town after dark until nearly the 80's.
Do you mean weren't allowed by law, or do you mean that it would be dangerous of them to be out after dark?
Yes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town
For all its faults (I liked it well enough), Lovecraft Country pretty accurately portrayed Sundown Towns.
These guys thankfully filled in the info, but the signs on the roads into the town I grew up in said they would hang them if found after dark, but in more racist wording. They didn't come down until 1978 in my town.
What's a "closed door museum?"
It depends. Are you white?
Yes, but I am a Northern Aggressor
You best just keep on drivin’
Prior to the 80's it was more of an open affair, but at some point they just put a door with no windows on it and you had to be asked to go into the "heritage room". Even into the late 90s before it was remodeled.
I read this comment a few times, and googled it, but I still don't know what a closed-door museum or a heritage room is in this context. What are they, and what happens in them? Lol
It was a room full of racist moron paraphilia where they believed they were preserving history although it was set up as a shrine to "The South will rise again" style bullshit. I doubt you will find anything on those search terms since they were just how I described it. I don't know if such things even existed in other towns, but ours had a room no bigger than 15x15' enshrined with Confederate, KKK, and even white supremacist paraphernalia. It's not a part of the towns history it would admit to now.
Wow. Thanks for the info. Can't say I'm surprised, but I'm definitely disappointed that those places exist...ed? I hope they don't exist. But again, I'd be disappointed, but not surprised...
No problem! My understanding is it's gone now, hit it's been a few years since I have been back. I wouldn't be surprised either.