Redding, CA, where she's from, is actually a former sundown town. In the late 1800s, it was one of the CA towns that participated in a systematic burning of West Coast Chinatowns. Other responses to your story also detail the nasty history of Redding. The mid-late 1800s were a particularly nasty time for Asian Americans, especially those on the West Coast. (SOURCE: https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/sundowntownsshow.php?id=1065 ).