[basil]

To tell you the truth, I did see this billboard. My father also saw it, and was appalled.

I’m older than you—and I don’t remember whether I saw it in the 40’s or 50’s.

Actually, now that I look at what I wrote, the town was Vidor—not Jasper. Sorry about that. I had an uncle living in Jasper back then, and somehow got it confused.

There are still some pretty rednecked people living in Vidor......

[dusttoyou]

Thanks. Yes apparently may have been pre-50’s.

When running the roads toward Beaumont I luckily never had any need to head east until much later.

Google more or less says the same on Vidor and the “sign”. Plus lots in Yankeeland and Hawthorn Kalifornia. Greenville’s was rather tame.

This thing in Jasper gave a pretty nice part of Texas a bad and mostly undeserved reputation due to some whitetrash visitors.