When it comes to the federal urban renewal program, Texas has often been dismissed as a conservative state since large cities like Dallas and Houston refused to participate. But a closer look at Texas shows that smaller cities such as Lubbock, Waco, and Grand Prairie did indeed embrace the program. Unlike northern cities which employed urban renewal to retard decline, these Texas cities embraced it to promote growth and to improve race relations. Because of segregation, blacks had few standard neighborhoods to reside in and civic leaders saw new opportunities to better black living conditions offered by urban renewal.

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德克萨斯州三个小城市的联邦城市更新：混合遗产

谈到联邦城市更新计划，得克萨斯州经常被视为保守党，因为达拉斯和休斯顿等大城市拒绝参加。但是仔细观察德克萨斯州，发现拉伯克，韦科和大草原等较小的城市确实确实接受了该计划。与北部城市采用城市更新来阻止衰退的城市不同，这些德克萨斯州城市都接受了城市更新以促进增长并改善种族关系。由于种族隔离，黑人几乎没有标准的社区可居住，公民领袖看到了新的机会来改善城市更新所提供的黑人生活条件。