Second Loving Day post

Jun 12, 2007 16:11

Back in 1967, when Loving v. Virginia was decided, the majority of people in the U.S. disapproved of interracial marriages. The first Gallup poll on the subject wasn't until a year later, but in 1968 72% of Americans disapproved of interracial marriage, where only 20% approved. And only 17% of whites approved.

It wasn't until 1991 that the ( Read more... )

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galamb_borong June 13 2007, 07:50:13 UTC
Scary thought: assuming these polls are accurate, if it had been put to the vote, we might still have had miscegenation laws with in our lifetimes.

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