Bakersfield, CA

The closest thing to Texas you are going to get in California. It now has a HUGE Texas Steakhouse with a HUGE Texas flag flying at the Valley Plaza Mall. I guess the motto," Everything is BIGGER in TEXAS." is more of the truth than California actually means "Golden." In the older neighborhoods of Bakersfield, it still practices Residential Segregation, maybe because out of Southern, not Californian, tradition (more commonly found in the Deep South.) Oildale (Northside Bakersfield, it's a secret to everybody!) As well as the East Side, West Side (Downtown Area) , South Side/ Greenfield, and Cottonwood area has been immortalized FOREVER as one of the most vicious sundown towns EVER in California's recorded history (SUNDOWN TOWN means everybody is housed together according to their race, just like a prison town.)