Sundown towns

[RBH]

Publishers weekly review of the Sundown Towns book:

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An online database of suspected Sundown towns: http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/content.php?file=sundowntowns-whitemap.html

With a pretty large number of former and possibly current towns in Missouri, Indiana, and Illinois. The book mentions more from Illinois, the database includes 97 entries from Missouri.

The book also mentions how the majority of those towns were in the North.

So if there's some coherant electoral trends to these areas, then that would be interesting.

[RBH]

This is interesting, but I'm not quite sure what to make of how willingly they accept isolated anecdotal evidence as proof that a town is still a "sundown town."

Some of it would involve historical events. Such as the various counties where the African-American population plunged in the late 18th Century. Such as in Southwest Missouri.

Since towns aren't blatantly hanging signs, a lot of the process for figuring out the towns today is a bit more difficult.