White California vegetable growers' associations were quite explicit about this. The Salinas Vegetable Grower-Shipper Association, for instance, published a brochure titled "No Japs Needed" and sent Austin E. Anson to urge federal authorities to remove all Japanese from the area.

"We’re charged with wanting to get rid of the Japs for selfish reasons. We might as well be honest. We do. It’s a question of whether the white man lives on the Pacific Coast or the brown men. They came into this valley to work, and they stayed to take over. … If all the Japs were removed tomorrow, we’d never miss them in two weeks, because the white farmers can take over and produce everything the Jap grows. And we don’t want them back when the war ends, either."

Not that it should matter, but the white farmers were NOT able to produce as much as the Japanese farmers could. The Japanese farmers really knew their farms, and the white dust bowl transplants from Oklahoma that took over the farms did not have the knowledge necessary to be instantly successful in Salinas Valley, even after being handed successful farms.

A few years ago I saw a website that basically said if there weren't black people in your town there was almost certainly a time when they were intentionally driven out and if you can't find out about it that just shows how well it was suppressed. And here are some examples.

No idea how to find that website sorry.

Shit. Looking for opportunity = looking for the opportunity not to be butchered by the local psychopath.

I heard there was a financial centre in the US that was destroyed because it was Black people making the money. It's pretty fucking blatant, isn't it.

Just searched - Tulsa! More searching, and I find it was done repeatedly. Repeatedly!

https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/08/09/gaskin-the-rise-and-destruction-of-black-wall-streets/

Sorry, you probably already know all your US history. I must seem strange reacting to it in real time.