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Donald Trump faces backlash over rally locations: "Sundown towns" (www.newsweek.com)

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Former President Donald Trump is facing backlash for holding rallies in places described as "sundown towns."

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[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 74 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Many of these towns still have those laws, they never removed them and refuse to to this day.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Waiting for SCOTUS to make it legal again. (And Trump's presence is effectively an endorsement of that.)

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A lot of these small towns around me don't even have their own police force or only have a few people on staff and have to use the sheriff for backup. They're going to have a bad time if people decide they're not going to put up with it.

[–] Aphelion@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it's probably one of those sherrif departments that's managed to get a couple APCs and tanks with tax payer funds.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

County by me has 13k people in it across 500 sq miles. Not sure how they're going to catch anybody in an APC (which they didn't have) after they zoop out of the area on one of the many country roads.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago

"Let the states decide!"