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Bayou La Batre and the Vietnamese shrimpers
1975
Bayou La Batre, Alabama
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A shrimping and boatbuilding town that calls itself the seafood capital of Alabama, and one of the places Vietnamese refugees settled after 1975 because the work was familiar. There was friction, and worse further west in Texas, but the fleet here absorbed them. Imported farmed shrimp has since done more damage to the industry than anything else.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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