Colonial Whites.

It's actually newer than the shitholes around it.

Most of the segregationists who moved there years ago migrated further west.

Oh is it really a "white" town? As in, "you had better not be caught being brown in our town" type of racist shit?

I thought those type of towns only existed in the deep south.

It was created as its own town when federal law made Petersburg schools integrate. The whites moved across the river and set up their own schools.

Wow, how fucked.

Yup. Scratch the surface of anything around here and there’s some effed up racist shit behind it.

Thanks for that little history tidbit! Never knew why it carried that name.

Lovely.

Did you know that we had confederate monuments on a main street? We just recently took them down.

The white flight from Petersburg absolutely happened, almost doubling Colonial Heights’ population, but it was incorporated 6 years before Brown so integration couldn’t have been the only reason for its existence.

The Deep South is still alive and well in Virginia outside of the major metro areas. Go to Danville or Bedford and you’ll see what I mean.

Is there a reason you’re calling out Bedford

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I was just thinking of places outside of nova/Richmond/HR that have a Deep South feel and also have a sizeable population. Didn’t want to include Appalachia because I think it’s distinct.

Also it’s one of the towns I’ve actually been to. I’m sure south Boston is similar but I’ve never been.

Talk about living in a bubble... Do you get your news from the comment sections or Twitter too?

I grew up around the Petersburg area back in the 80’s-90’s and the funny thing is that Colonial Heights was considered a posh area. When I go there now I have to laugh because I really believe that all the hate was the real downfall.

Others here can (and have) talked about its history better than I could, but it's far from being an all-white town today.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/dashboard/colonialheightscityvirginia/PST045222

The Tri-Cities area (Petersburg, Hopewell, Colonial Heights) has some huge historical disadvantages in education, racism, environmental damage, and a limited economy (military with mostly young trainee soldiers rather than engineers/IT people and more senior soldiers).

Those issues don't disappear at the city limits of Petersburg and Hopewell.

What gave you a Deep South feel in Bedford

Pretty broad brush you're painting with there. African Americans are the largest demographic of both Danville and South Boston. Where else in the state would you like to ignorantly shit on next?

If Tom Robbins in Pretty Legs is to be believed, it's always been a dump

Colonial Heights/Petersburg/Hopewell is the most depressing area I’ve ever seen. Every customer I’ve driven to/from there was having a hard day in a harder life.

You don’t even have to scratch. Just lightly breathe towards anything.

Just wait until you find out what used to be on Monument Avenue.