*Cackles Gleefully*
I should have expected something like that 
Well, you were the one who came up with the Simler idea, so I think you need to take some of the credit, my friend. Thanks to your creative mind, Sundown Town just acquired a whole new kind of evilness (if that's a word).
Oh, and by the way, I thought readers might be interested in something I found when I was researching the historical character who was Simler's model (I don't even want to write his name here, but you know who I mean.) One of the Wikipedia articles I looked at contained a link to something called "Sundown Town." What??? I made up that name as a play on "Sunset Valley" - how could there possibly be a link to it? Naturally I hurried over to look at the article.
There I learned that "sundown town" was the term applied to segregated communities that had a practice of actively discouraging non-white people from remaining in town after sundown. Actively discouraging meaning harassment, threats, violence, and even a few lynchings. This variety of racism had its heyday from the late 19th to the early- to mid-20th Century. But in his book about the phenomenon, James Loewen seems to imply that this type of racial segregation may still exist, although probably not quite as blatantly as in times past.
As I said, I had no idea of all this when I nicknamed my town "Sundown Town." I just wanted a name that was similar to "Sunset Valley" but a little darker sounding. I had no idea how dark was the territory I was getting into.
