Me and a friend of mine ran into the KKK going back home from San Antonio. We were stationed in Fort Polk at the time and both of us are Hispanics. They were next to a church protesting and we did take a picture before leaving but we always knew that you just don’t stop there for any reason, you just drive right through. This happened around 1997, but also had a sister in law who was married to my step brother who were both white say the same thing. They were living there around 2015 before their house got flooded and moved to Leesville.
Me and a friend ran into some hispanics in Schulenburg they called us rednecks and commenced to BOW up until we beat their ass down and they went and cried racist ALL THE WAY HOME😂😂😂
@@BamBamZ_Gaming I was born in the 1970s. Vidor was/is a sundown town. It means that after sunset there was no guarantee of safety for black people because the KKK was so rampant. As late at the 1990s it was controversial for black people to live there and the government was still trying to integrate the town. So I have no interest in going where I'm not wanted.
@@BamBamZ_Gaming There's a ton of options Beaumont, Port Arthur are the "big cities" but there is also Lumberton, Orange, Nederland, Sour Lake etc. Beaumont and Port Arthur are predominantly black, and there are "suburbs" nearby both these towns with super nice houses. To be fair the area is a good place to live, it isn't the big city but a decent cost of living, decent jobs, and close to some colleges and universities
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I heard a documented true fact from a ( LA public school 6th grader) that was being stalked by all the blatts in the school to be jumped in the non gender bathroom and injured for saying the N word and physical violence was the socal norm for socal justice. She was assigned a teacher bodyguard and escort her out early from school to her ride home everyday for a year. The truth was she never said the N word its was a competitor cheerleader that started the rumor to have her beat.
Most likely nothing would happen other then maybe some bad looks or passive agressive behavior etc. though it's still easily posible someone might also say something hostile racially or ortherwise or give you a well meaning warning (trying to protect your safety that is), but unlikely anything more. But occasionally it does happen and is a possibility, and of course that is not uneque to Vidor. It also wouldn't be unusual to actually be treated warmly by some people. But Vidor is an overall crime and drug ridden poor white suburb with a reputation for open racism even now so it's not the safest place... it's just that even in the most dangerous neighborhoods, being a crime victim is generally very unlikely in the short term. Move there or hang out often longer term and it's a whole nother story!
But of course being in the wrong place at the wrong time at night around a rough looking unfamiliar crowd (even a small one) is always a bad idea and IS asking for trouble!!! Not something I would do.
I’m moving to Texas right in that same area and I’m black 🎉😂❤they are going to love me and my five member family. I work and go home but if you start some shit know I’m with the shit too 😂😊
Some people may say otherwise, but I've lived here in Vidor for 17+ years and will say it's easily the worst town I've ever lived in. The school district and businesses are what really did it in for me over the last several years. People have their own opinions about it I guess. But nice tour video by the way.
@@DynamicSphinx lets just say when I have to travel between TX-LA I book it past Orange and Vidor no stopping, make sure you got yourself a full tank of gas. I got no business being in that town being who I am.
@@jcatchable as good as that sounds and we like to think thats true but for most its not. Me personally… i have spent a night in Vidor because i was tired of driving on a road trip. Got many stares and a few words of slander but for The most part… nobody in America is stupid enough to put themselves in prison for hate crimes I would hope. So it’s really a bunch of threats. May be a few that will do something if they think they can get away with it. But just because it’s a sundown town doesn’t mean they’re dumb enough to actually touch people like that. Although in these type of towns it does happen. Yea i stayed a night and had my arms just in case. On the bright side… I was able to get a room, food and store run for beer with no issues except wise cracks under breath and stares which dont bother me. If im touched… than i will defend myself! So now that i wrote this, I can see I actually agree with you! Im a black man and 100% American! I will go wherever I want in America! Its our birthright period. You dont have to like it or me.😂💯 Sorry so long everybody
@@wadetruax2105 hi. I love to visit different town in Texas, I’m dark skin Puertorican and now Im scare to visit other towns. It is true about sundown town there?
Y’all spooky… I’m 100 percent sure I stayed in vidor coming home from out east headed to Dallas when I ran out of hours (tractor trailer days). I just slept in a parking lot and minced my business.
How about u go check out truck drive who posted his experience, when the shipper told him they had to get him unload immediately because it was almost sunbdown and once they did they told him to get far away as he could and not to stop for nothing!!!!!
People mistake getting lucky for being tough or “ it’s not that bad “ Your truck helped you blend ins Go driving through there in a regular car and see what happens .. count your blessings and don’t discredit danger lol
First thing everybody that thinks vidor is a bad not town better keep there f****g opinion to them self😠😠😠 second it is a real nice not racist town and if you did not hear him he said back roads so of course it is not nice but Wal-Mart is 😂 I have lived here from the second I was born all I am trying to say is KEEP YOUR OPINIONS TO YOURSELF OK !!!!!!!!!!!🙏👍👍👍👌👌👌
Did you know... Vidor Texas was Home of. * Tracy Byrd, country music artist * Clay Walker, country music artist * George Jones, country music artist * Mixx Fixxer, rock band * Johnny Paycheck, singer song writer * Dean Corll, prolific 1970s Houston serial killer * David Adam Moore, opera singer, composer * David Ray Harris, suspected murderer featured in the documentary The Thin Blue Line (and later executed for a separate murder) * Tamara Hext, 1984 Miss Texas * John Hirasaki, NASA mechanical engineer * Roger Mobley, former child actor, was a police detective in Vidor. * David Ozio, Professional Bowlers Association and USBC Hall of Famer * Don Rollins, songwriter, co-author of the hit country tune "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" * Billie Jo Spears, country music artist * Jennifer Wrinke, fiddler, singer * Charlie Stagg, artist
@@brittrips I'm pretty sure they would all say Beaumont because its the bigger town. George was born in Saratoga, Texas, and was raised in Vidor, with his brother and five sisters. At 16 he moved to the Jasper area to play for the radio station.
The hills have eyes as town, they still knit the clothes in that mf, you have to use the out house and they haven't discovered tissue yet. Air smells of trash, pig feet, and booze. Lice and bed bugs run rampant around them parts, and for fun, there's always meth and Cindy with the wooden dentures.
@@shawtybanks4404 for the most part I said, but all likely literally true to a degree except for the last part (probably no one with wooden dentures)...
@@shawtybanks4404oh yeah! But let's break this all down, though not in the order you gave. *1* ) So I'm sure all the adults in Vidor have discovered tissue regardless of what they may prefer to use. Most probably use tissue but whatever. Who cares, - not our business. *2* ) I'm also sure most probably don't knit but some do, and that's actually a shame (that more people don't have that skill. I was raised poor in the city (and I am white) by my rural raised mom and step dad. She knew how to knit but didnt do that much if it. I can sow repairs but have not as of yet learned to actually knit clothing. Nothing wrong with knitting at all as it's a good skill to have. *3* ) Pigs feet can be tasty and if you eat pork might as well! *4* ) Burning trash is common in places with little public infrastructure in the South regardless of racial composition. *5* ) Now lice and bed bugs (ugh!) are also common in run down settings all over too, regarding of race or ethnicity. But I sure don't want them in my home! *6* ) Not very many people still have outhouses but it does occur sometimes in rural settings. *7* ) And meth, well of course there are drugs and drug use, not for everyone but it's common and destructive, unfortunately. *8* ) Finally there is nothing wrong at all with being named Cindy or Karen etc. They are just people's names in reality. So while Vidor, Texas may well be special in a not good way, what you doscribe isn't what makes it so. That would just an ordenary run down poor town in the Deep South of whatever racial or ethnic composition. Sad to be sure but extremely common. Mostly white versions of this are also common in many parts of the Deep South as well, though not everywhere and they are much more so in Appalachia and the upper South and lower Midwest in general.
@@OhioTies although Vidor is poor and messed up it does not lack towers do to poverty or lack of intelligence. Most US small towns and suburbs, including prosperous and diverse ones, don't have any towers either. Vidor isn't prosperous nor is it diverse nor well educated. It's a very crappy and yes poor town, but it's lack of tall building is simply typical of most towns in the United States, especially in the Deep South.
To the OP your question has a false premise: most small towns and most US suburbs don't have any towers as in tall structures either. Vidor is a typical big small town-suburb in that regard.
@WOKE SOCIETY LLC now, being raised in vidor I can say that it really isn't as bad as people say it is. There is only like a 92.943% chance you will get kidnapped. 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
Me and a friend of mine ran into the KKK going back home from San Antonio. We were stationed in Fort Polk at the time and both of us are Hispanics. They were next to a church protesting and we did take a picture before leaving but we always knew that you just don’t stop there for any reason, you just drive right through. This happened around 1997, but also had a sister in law who was married to my step brother who were both white say the same thing. They were living there around 2015 before their house got flooded and moved to Leesville.
What did they say too you?
That's a cute tour of the town but I'm STILL not going there.
Me and a friend ran into some hispanics in Schulenburg they called us rednecks and commenced to BOW up until we beat their ass down and they went and cried racist ALL THE WAY HOME😂😂😂
You can stop anywhere as long as you got your AR-15 and sidearm on you.
I've never set foot in this town and I was born six miles from it. Will never go.
Why? Honestly asking bc I'm looking to buy a property there to move to from Australia
@@BamBamZ_Gaming I was born in the 1970s. Vidor was/is a sundown town. It means that after sunset there was no guarantee of safety for black people because the KKK was so rampant. As late at the 1990s it was controversial for black people to live there and the government was still trying to integrate the town. So I have no interest in going where I'm not wanted.
@@johnnaoates9898 they'd love me then hahaha an Australian born Maori that's heavily tattooed.
@@johnnaoates9898 Would there be a town you'd say is safe to bring my sons up in near there?
@@BamBamZ_Gaming There's a ton of options Beaumont, Port Arthur are the "big cities" but there is also Lumberton, Orange, Nederland, Sour Lake etc. Beaumont and Port Arthur are predominantly black, and there are "suburbs" nearby both these towns with super nice houses. To be fair the area is a good place to live, it isn't the big city but a decent cost of living, decent jobs, and close to some colleges and universities
A kissing cousins town , heeeehaaaa!!!
lol
Just not your cousin😂😂
A city that wouldn’t effect the rest of America if it flooded and wouldn’t exist any longer 😊
How loving of you. Fight hate with more hate. Stupid.
If you are here in 2021 and you are reading this You are courageous, brave and strong! You are amazing! Don't let any circumstance turn you down👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
This was my happiness when I lived there
This Town Will Never Prosper cus of the Hate for Gods Jewel's
Testicles?
I heard a documented true fact from a ( LA public school 6th grader) that was being stalked by all the blatts in the school to be jumped in the non gender bathroom and injured for saying the N word and physical violence was the socal norm for socal justice. She was assigned a teacher bodyguard and escort her out early from school to her ride home everyday for a year.
The truth was she never said the N word its was a competitor cheerleader that started the rumor to have her beat.
Jewels?
God's Jewels? Where is that in scripture? Don't be a fool.
And the latinos
I went to vidor high school years ago and I will never forget or forgive them for what they did to me
What happened
@@brittrips I’ll just say this it’s a cliquish school if you aren’t trailer trash you will be an outcast
@@WolfgangKrauser77 100%. Smart people who bathe are weird.
@@WolfgangKrauser77 yeah they are mean tho but everything else is fine now
Or for what they did to John William King in 1998
My Mexican cardiologist wanted to open a cardiac clinic in that city, but he quickly changed his mind! (he didn't properly research the area)
I would honestly stop there just to see what they tell me but strapped lol
Most likely nothing would happen other then maybe some bad looks or passive agressive behavior etc. though it's still easily posible someone might also say something hostile racially or ortherwise or give you a well meaning warning (trying to protect your safety that is), but unlikely anything more. But occasionally it does happen and is a possibility,
and of course that is not uneque to Vidor. It also wouldn't be unusual to actually be treated warmly by some people. But Vidor is an overall crime and drug ridden poor white suburb with a reputation for open racism even now so it's not the safest place... it's just that even in the most dangerous neighborhoods, being a crime victim is generally very unlikely in the short term. Move there or hang out often longer term and it's a whole nother story!
But of course being in the wrong place at the wrong time at night around a rough looking unfamiliar crowd (even a small one) is always a bad idea and IS asking for trouble!!! Not something I would do.
I’m moving to Texas right in that same area and I’m black 🎉😂❤they are going to love me and my five member family. I work and go home but if you start some shit know I’m with the shit too 😂😊
Please be careful cause I'm pretty sure if they start something the cops will most likely protect them
Why don't you want to live in a black community?
@@kathrynanneperry4651 it’s not safe
@@kathrynanneperry4651 nope I love this area I’m not afraid they don’t put fear in me at all maybe others but not me
@@abby-a I have cops lawyers and some judges in my family why would I be scared
Some people may say otherwise, but I've lived here in Vidor for 17+ years and will say it's easily the worst town I've ever lived in. The school district and businesses are what really did it in for me over the last several years. People have their own opinions about it I guess. But nice tour video by the way.
Can you elaborate? Is it because it's a sundown town?
@@DynamicSphinx lets just say when I have to travel between TX-LA I book it past Orange and Vidor no stopping, make sure you got yourself a full tank of gas. I got no business being in that town being who I am.
@@shannonyang3651 This is America. You can go where you want. Strap up and get going.
@@jcatchable as good as that sounds and we like to think thats true but for most its not. Me personally… i have spent a night in Vidor because i was tired of driving on a road trip. Got many stares and a few words of slander but for The most part… nobody in America is stupid enough to put themselves in prison for hate crimes I would hope. So it’s really a bunch of threats. May be a few that will do something if they think they can get away with it. But just because it’s a sundown town doesn’t mean they’re dumb enough to actually touch people like that. Although in these type of towns it does happen. Yea i stayed a night and had my arms just in case. On the bright side… I was able to get a room, food and store run for beer with no issues except wise cracks under breath and stares which dont bother me. If im touched… than i will defend myself! So now that i wrote this, I can see I actually agree with you! Im a black man and 100% American! I will go wherever I want in America! Its our birthright period. You dont have to like it or me.😂💯 Sorry so long everybody
Move… of course your too pitiful to afford it. Dependent on family? Grow up
Go to a klan meeting
Definitely on my bucket list 😂
This is the closest I'll ever come to that town.
You can't really say that because you never know the circumstances that life will place you in, but I understand your feelings definitely.
@@jessejohnson3138 I can. I did,
😂😂
don’t go there it’s a sundown town
It’s not no more stfu I’ve lived here my whole life
@@wadetruax2105 hi. I love to visit different town in Texas, I’m dark skin Puertorican and now Im scare to visit other towns. It is true about sundown town there?
@@horrorfan4794 If you show respect to others, others will respect you. It’s as simple as that.
@@r3tr0r1ch9 i always respect orders, racist don’t care about that.
@@horrorfan4794 no problems in this city anymore! go ahead
I for one wouldn't feel comfortable stepping foot in this town.
Towns in America are just non stop roads with big cars and a few McDonald’s sprinkled about
That's wierd that whyte ppl have sundown towns and we don't even do that in our neighborhoods. That goes to show the hate you guys have
Right cuz white folks can just walk around Detroit, or Memphis at night no issues.
But yet let them tell it we (black people are the enemy)
Whyte people are weird
What’s the ghetto then
@@ReaIly yeah not the same at all bruh lol
Quiet roads in good shape. Your vehicle has a nice smooth ride.
buckle up you mean ARM UP after sun down you better stay packing never stop in vidor EVER
I’m coming to move there be there real soon
@@crystallewis5814 bro how's it been going for you out there?
On my way I can’t wait
@@anonymous-zb2wy same as how it’s been for you
@@crystallewis5814 nigga na ion live in vidor fool 😂
This is a real Sundowner city.
Y’all spooky… I’m 100 percent sure I stayed in vidor coming home from out east headed to Dallas when I ran out of hours (tractor trailer days). I just slept in a parking lot and minced my business.
You mean the Klan didn't get you at sundown.
How about u go check out truck drive who posted his experience, when the shipper told him they had to get him unload immediately because it was almost sunbdown and once they did they told him to get far away as he could and not to stop for nothing!!!!!
@@dnice.757 Dude was pump fakin
People mistake getting lucky for being tough or “ it’s not that bad “
Your truck helped you blend ins
Go driving through there in a regular car and see what happens .. count your blessings and don’t discredit danger lol
I can smell the racism in that town.
I'm about to have a vacation in Vidor
hell yeah... Shit go to a klan rally as well
7:28 house to the right played catch with a pretty nice tree. Zero mention :))
Whole town smell like earring backs.
First thing everybody that thinks vidor is a bad not town better keep there f****g opinion to them self😠😠😠 second it is a real nice not racist town and if you did not hear him he said back roads so of course it is not nice but Wal-Mart is 😂 I have lived here from the second I was born all I am trying to say is KEEP YOUR OPINIONS TO YOURSELF OK !!!!!!!!!!!🙏👍👍👍👌👌👌
ok cool im black and thinking about purchasing a home there to stay gor good
Heard this was a sun down town
It is
Hillbilly gulch
😂
Yes, it was. Still not a safe town but no longer a true sundown town.
😂😂😂😂
Did you know... Vidor Texas was Home of.
* Tracy Byrd, country music artist
* Clay Walker, country music artist
* George Jones, country music artist
* Mixx Fixxer, rock band
* Johnny Paycheck, singer song writer
* Dean Corll, prolific 1970s Houston serial killer
* David Adam Moore, opera singer, composer
* David Ray Harris, suspected murderer featured in the documentary The Thin Blue Line (and later executed for a separate murder)
* Tamara Hext, 1984 Miss Texas
* John Hirasaki, NASA mechanical engineer
* Roger Mobley, former child actor, was a police detective in Vidor.
* David Ozio, Professional Bowlers Association and USBC Hall of Famer
* Don Rollins, songwriter, co-author of the hit country tune "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere"
* Billie Jo Spears, country music artist
* Jennifer Wrinke, fiddler, singer
* Charlie Stagg, artist
George Jones forreal??
I knew Clay Walker but I thought he always said Beaumont.
Thanks for the info that’s awesome man
@@brittrips I'm pretty sure they would all say Beaumont because its the bigger town. George was born in Saratoga, Texas, and was raised in Vidor, with his brother and five sisters. At 16 he moved to the Jasper area to play for the radio station.
Love me some George Jones
did you know its a sundown town too?
You forgot Scuzz Twittly
Sundown Town.
It'll make a better parking lot.
I just watched this to see how the white supremacists live.
Vidor Tx or 3rd Ward Houston ?
I’ll choose 3rd ward above this cotton picking town any day
What kind of car do you own?
This is a sundown town!! No way!!
It will be funny if some guy gas the town
this is my hometown
The hills have eyes as town, they still knit the clothes in that mf, you have to use the out house and they haven't discovered tissue yet. Air smells of trash, pig feet, and booze. Lice and bed bugs run rampant around them parts, and for fun, there's always meth and Cindy with the wooden dentures.
All metamorphic, not literally true for the most part.
@@jKLa I can see all that from the picture.
@@shawtybanks4404 for the most part I said, but all likely literally true to a degree except for the last part (probably no one with wooden dentures)...
@@jKLa 🤣😂🤣 I just threw that as a bonus joke
@@shawtybanks4404oh yeah! But let's break this all down, though not in the order you gave.
*1* ) So I'm sure all the adults in Vidor have discovered tissue regardless of what they may prefer to use. Most probably use tissue but whatever. Who cares, - not our business.
*2* ) I'm also sure most probably don't knit but some do, and that's actually a shame (that more people don't have that skill. I was raised poor in the city (and I am white) by my rural raised mom and step dad. She knew how to knit but didnt do that much if it. I can sow repairs but have not as of yet learned to actually knit clothing. Nothing wrong with knitting at all as it's a good skill to have.
*3* ) Pigs feet can be tasty and if you eat pork might as well!
*4* ) Burning trash is common in places with little public infrastructure in the South regardless of racial composition.
*5* ) Now lice and bed bugs (ugh!) are also common in run down settings all over too, regarding of race or ethnicity. But I sure don't want them in my home!
*6* ) Not very many people still have outhouses but it does occur sometimes in rural settings.
*7* ) And meth, well of course there are drugs and drug use, not for everyone but it's common and destructive, unfortunately.
*8* ) Finally there is nothing wrong at all with being named Cindy or Karen etc. They are just people's names in reality.
So while Vidor, Texas may well be special in a not good way, what you doscribe isn't what makes it so. That would just an ordenary run down poor town in the Deep South of whatever racial or ethnic composition. Sad to be sure but extremely common. Mostly white versions of this are also common in many parts of the Deep South as well, though not everywhere and they are much more so in Appalachia and the upper South and lower Midwest in general.
Based town
I bet there's 0 crime in that town, want to bet?
I know I'm not far from Vidor TX but I would not visit Vidor TX
Beaumonts close only like 15 minutes right?
Yes, I’m from Beaumont.
@@brittrips yep that's right
I hope everyone is safe especially those familiar with the racial history of the city.
Vidor was known as the most racist city in America..!
❤
I'm White Muslim can i go Vidor Texas??
No, only for Christians.
Klan Country
🍎👍 Nice timelapse intro. Beautiful. Nice map of
the location of the drive as well. Very helpful. Cheers and happy new year. -H
Why are there no towers, like in every other city?!
Stuck in the early 20th century.
Cuz they are poor and unintelligent
@@OhioTies although Vidor is poor and messed up it does not lack towers do to poverty or lack of intelligence. Most US small towns and suburbs, including prosperous and diverse ones, don't have any towers either. Vidor isn't prosperous nor is it diverse nor well educated. It's a very crappy and yes poor town, but it's lack of tall building is simply typical of most towns in the United States, especially in the Deep South.
To the OP your question has a false premise: most small towns and most US suburbs don't have any towers as in tall structures either. Vidor is a typical big small town-suburb in that regard.
Vidor. Damn.
Sundown town
As long as God keep sending those twisters to this evil place I'm good
If you wish evil onto others you're no better than some of the people I know who live I vidor
They would not like me there lol
Sundown town ………….smh
😊
That’s one the most racist town in America
❤
No
Looks like a nice area. Thanks for the ride.
My hometown for 8 years
@WOKE SOCIETY LLC no it’s actually nice and crimes are rare
@WOKE SOCIETY LLC now, being raised in vidor I can say that it really isn't as bad as people say it is. There is only like a 92.943% chance you will get kidnapped. 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
@@thewolfdemon5730 if you are white.
I'm black I shouldn't be laughing at that. Lol.
@@elmodiaz1909 Exactly! He left that part out.