Sundown

Sundown

"When I feel like I'm winning when I'm losing again..."

Gordon Lightfoot-Sundown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8rR7E6NfY4

Originally shared by Matt McIrvin

How 20th century segregation worked in the North, and its persistent effect on racial distribution and election results.

Another way to put it is that we had a huge internal refugee crisis originating from the South, which white Northerners responded to with ethnic cleansing.
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2016/12/sundown-towns-and-trumps-america.html

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  1. John BumpDecember 16, 2016 at 10:23 AM

    A now-vanished g+ friend had never heard of the concept of sundown towns and was pretty horrified to find out about them in a conversation about racism. Yeah, most of us were pretty horrified, but I think most people in the west found out about that in their teens rather than their thirties.

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  2. Timothy StreetDecember 16, 2016 at 10:41 AM

    Excepting the southwest - for reasons other than sundown towns - the map closely parallels the urban-academic / rural separation of the election. Another position to consider is that maps and graphics such as these help divide: not everyone in the red voted for Trump; nor were all the votes cast in the blue areas for Clinton. The better representations have pale blue and pink denoting gradients - as there were votes for both candidates for differing reasons. Many votes cast - both for Dems and the GOP - were votes against the other candidate, rather than support for Trump or Clinton. I know the history, and I understand the reasoning and correlation presented; I don't believe it is "a voice for moderation".

    But then I always vote for a third party candidate, or the challenger -- never for an incumbent Republican or Democrat. How sane does that make me - believing I alone am the one voting for "change". : /

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