As someone born and raised in a small rural area, I believe I am qualified to comment on

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25. California had "sundown towns" and KKK chapters like the rest of the nation.

I grew up in a California city that was 99% white and kept that way by various underhanded means, even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Issuing DWB (Driving While Black) citations was a favorite sport of the local police, people who were not white were not shown every available home or apartment, and employers favored white people over everyone else.

Few people in the city even thought about it. If you asked them, most probably would have said they were "color blind" and believed in "equal opportunity" for all. They were clueless. I was clueless.

But that's not why I got the hell out of there. I was a weird autistic spectrum white kid who was bullied constantly starting in middle school. Quitting high school for college was one of the better decisions I've made in my life.

My wife and I met teaching in a big city in the later 'eighties. The majority of our students were not white. Since then we haven't lived in majority white neighborhoods. We made a very deliberate decision not to raise our children in an affluent white community like the one I grew up in.

The kids who I grew up with who never left the city are still largely "colorblind" and clueless. The city is not so white any more, about ten percent of the population is Asian now, mostly working in high tech industry.