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A TikTok video recently went viral after a woman claimed she was shocked to discover she lives in a “sundown town”—specifically, Astoria, Oregon. Her emotional monologue quickly gained attention across social media, sparking a wider conversation about racism, Oregon’s history, and whether labels like “sundown town” still have meaning today.
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The woman, who says she moved from the South expecting Oregon to be more progressive, expressed dismay upon learning that Astoria was marked as a sundown town on a crowdsourced online map. “B****, I live in one of them,”
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