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Originally Posted by Polar
The 'Interracial marraige' argument doesn't fly because interracial marraige still meant two people and a man and a woman. The guidelines for what marraige was considered at the time was one of the main supporting reasons for them to be allowed to marry.
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Really? How sure of that are you? I've got actual historical records in the form of family archives stating that a scientific poll of several counties in Mississippi considered miscegination to be a crime against nature. I've got the actual polling data somewhere on a disk at home. If I can find it easily, I'll post it. When folks consider a black person and a white person to be entirely different things, the playing field changes.
Attitudes change, my friend. They always have. My great-great-grandfather, who was not a particularly good human being by anyone's definition (and was eclipsed in the son-of-a-bitch catagory by his son, my great-grandfather), participated in a lynching in Mississippi of a black man that got caught receiving the services of a white whore. My dad has the postcard that memorialized that particular event. I don't really share their believes on miscegnation, though.