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Vidor (/ ˈ v aɪ d ər / VY-dər) is a city in western Orange County, Texas, United States. A city of Southeast Texas , it lies at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Farm to Market Road 105 , 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Beaumont .
A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
New laws were enacted in the 20th century. One example is Louisville, Kentucky, whose mayor proposed a law in 1911 that would restrict Black people from owning property in certain parts of the city. [20] This city ordinance reached public attention when it was challenged in the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Buchanan v. Warley in 1917.
Texas has a total of 254 counties, by far the largest number of counties of any state. Counties in Texas have limited regulatory (ordinance) authority. [1] Counties also have much less legal power than home rule municipalities. They can only pass ordinances (local laws with penalties for violations) in cases where the Texas statutes have given ...
Aug. 4—Earlier this week, a federal judge ruled that a short-term rental regulation in Austin, Texas, was unconstitutional. Austin is one of the many cities around the country — including ...
Vidor, Texas; W. White Settlement, Texas This page was last edited on 29 October 2024, at 11:24 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
A post shared on X claims the state of Texas purportedly passed a bill banning Sharia Law in December 2024. Verdict: False There is no reference to the claim on Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ...
Crain had just graduated from high school in her hometown of Vidor, Texas, in May of 2023 when she learned that she was pregnant. She and her boyfriend of two years, Randall Broussard, were always ...