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The 126 towns, 9 confirmed, and 10 suspects are listed at
uvm.edu/~jloewen/sundown
. I omitted towns smaller than 2,500 for two reasons: out of respect for Wisconsin’s small statewide black population—just under 3% in 1970, less than half Indiana’s—and because I knew I would not have time to investigate any of Wisconsin’s smaller towns on site.
There is some circularity in allowing a state’s small overall black population, which is depressed partly by its towns’ sundown policies, to “excuse” the overwhelming whiteness of its towns. If
all
Wisconsin towns kept out African Americans, then the statewide proportion would be 0%, and I would have to infer that
no
towns were sundown! This may be a larger problem in Idaho and Oregon, the latter owing in part to its law flatly excluding blacks, passed in 1849.