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Because of the presence of many sundown towns, the film obfuscates the racial reality of 1950s small-town southern Indiana.

As one Indiana resident relates, " All southern Hoosiers laughed at the movie Hoosiers because the movie depicts blacks playing basketball and sitting in the stands at games in Jasper.

We all agreed no blacks were permitted until probably the ' 60s and do not feel welcome today.

" A cheerleader for a predominantly white, but inter-racial Evansville high school, tells of having rocks thrown at their school bus as they sped out of Jasper after a basketball game in about 1975, more than twenty years after the events depicted in Hoosiers.