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re: Alabama is a really bad state by every metric.

Posted on 5/24/19 at 9:09 am to
Posted by agregime1
Member since Mar 2015
1265 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 9:09 am to
Someone posted this facts on Twitter and I had to double check it.
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 by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
51393 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 9:11 am to
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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.


Mississippi didn't officially ratify the 13 Amendment that banned slavery until 2013.

I really wish they had put that to a vote in 2013.
Posted by HogX
Madison, WI
Member since Dec 2012
5065 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 10:17 am to
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more than 40 percent of Alabamians still voted against overturning it.


Woooooooow
Posted by Carville
Sunshine, LA
Member since Jun 2014
5321 posts
Posted on 5/24/19 at 8:27 pm to
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Back in 2000, Alabama became the last state in the country to overturn its ban on interracial marriage.

They kept it on the books to keep the football players from plowing their daughter/neices.
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