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re: Alabama is a really bad state by every metric.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 9:05 am to agregime1
Posted on 5/24/19 at 9:05 am to agregime1
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The last state to legalize interracial marriage (in the year 2000! 40% voted to keep it illegal!)
Wait, is this true?
I don't think that's true. That being illegal until the year 2000 does not seem right. But I was 12 in 2000, so what do I know.
This post was edited on 5/24/19 at 9:06 am
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Posted on 5/24/19 at 9:07 am to TheCaterpillar
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The last state to legalize interracial marriage (in the year 2000! 40% voted to keep it illegal!)
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Wait, is this true?
I don't think that's true. That being illegal until the year 2000 does not seem right. But I was 12 in 2000, so what do I know.
Well the Supreme Court ruled interracial marriage bans unconstitutional back in the 60s.
Maybe Alabama didn't officially remove the ban from their state law until 2000, even though you could still have it done in the state anyways?
Posted on 5/24/19 at 9:08 am to TheCaterpillar
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Wait, is this true?
I don't think that's true. That being illegal until the year 2000 does not seem right. But I was 12 in 2000, so what do I know.
IIRC the law was still on the books but had long since been superseded by court rulings. The vote was symbolic.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 9:09 am to TheCaterpillar
Someone posted this facts on Twitter and I had to double check it.
But it is true.
Washington Post Article
But it is true.
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Back in 2000, Alabama became the last state in the country to overturn its ban on interracial marriage. And despite more than three decades having passed since the Supreme Court ruled such laws unconstitutional (rendering such bans effectively moot), more than 40 percent of Alabamians still voted against overturning it.
Washington Post Article
Posted on 5/24/19 at 9:10 am to TheCaterpillar
State bans on interracial marriage were already unconstitutional as a result of the Living v Virginia decision in 1967.
There was a vote in AL (not sure if it was in 2000 or the late Nineties) to remove the now unenforceable ban from our state constitution, and I think the percentage of votes against that was somewhere in the thirties, but it may have been as high as forty percent.
There was a vote in AL (not sure if it was in 2000 or the late Nineties) to remove the now unenforceable ban from our state constitution, and I think the percentage of votes against that was somewhere in the thirties, but it may have been as high as forty percent.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 10:54 am to TheCaterpillar
The Supreme Court outlawed that law decades ago. Probably why it was never repealed.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 3:04 pm to TheCaterpillar
Bama also has a damn solid beach.
Louisiana has Grand Isle
Louisiana has Grand Isle
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