I know people think of America as some metro urban area like NYC, LA, most of SoCal, Philly, Chi-Town, Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio.
Most of America is little one horse redneck towns located in rural fly over country. Those little rural towns probably account for over half of the American population.
I live in Louisiana and we have some towns that were considered sundown towns once ago.
I went to one of these towns one night to attend a basketball game one of my coaching buddies invited me to. I've never felt that kinda tension in a place. The gym was full of White people with the exception of the players, referees, and me. There might have been literally 2-3 Black fans in there.
I remember when I walked in everyone in the gym looked at me. I believe, but I cannot confirm I heard one of the players being called the n-word on the floor later on that night.
Very interesting experience. I wouldn't be caught in a little town like that again without the tool. After the game was over I got in my shyt and left.