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Way to go Mississippi!!!

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Hmmm... maybe I shouldn't have applied for that job @ Southern Miss.
 
It's strange to think how many of my friends and their parents would be effected by such a change. Even if it was just making black and white marriages illegal that would take out my childhood best friend.

I wonder how they define "interracial"? My father-in-law is Welsh and his wife is English...that could be considered interracial by certain definitions!
 
Weak Kitten said:
I wonder how they define "interracial"? My father-in-law is Welsh and his wife is English...that could be considered interracial by certain definitions!
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The Mississippi anti-miscegenation statute that was in effect at the time of the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia criminalized marriage between "a white person and a negro or mulatto or person who shall have one-eighth or more of negro blood, or with a Mongolian or a person who shall have one-eighth or more of Mongolian blood." Miss. Code Ann. § 459 (1942). Of course there's no guarantee that the poll respondents' preferences overlap precisely with the old legal definition, but that's the history for whatever it's worth.
 
pls tell me Salon is something like TheOnion...
 
So what do they mean by Mongolian? Are they just picking on people from Mongolia or are they using the older term for what we now call Asians?

If the latter that still effects quite a few of my friends.
 
Weak Kitten said:
So what do they mean by Mongolian? Are they just picking on people from Mongolia or are they using the older term for what we now call Asians?

If the latter that still effects quite a few of my friends.
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I'm not sure if there was a statutory definition, but according to Wikipedia it likely included all East Asians:

The first usage of the term Mongolian race was by Christoph Meiners in a "binary racial scheme" of "two races", with the Caucasian whose racial purity was exemplified by the "venerated... ancient Germans" and "Mongolians" who consisted of everyone else. The term Mongolian was borrowed from Meiners by Johann Blumenbach to describe "second [race], [which] includes that part of Asia beyond the Ganges and below the river Amoor [Amur], which looks toward the south, together with the islands and the greater part of these countries which is now called Australian".
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In which case it would include me and my Filipino-Canadian wife-- but we never wanted to move to Mississippi anyway. (Or maybe not, as Wikipedia continues "In 1983, Futuyma claimed that the inclusion of Native Americans and Pacific Islanders under the Yellow people race was not recognized by 'many anthropologists' who consider them 'distinct races'".)
 
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Wow, thanks for the info. It makes me ashamed to use the term Mongolian...but if they don't object then I'll probably keep using it. I just can't remember the proper name for the peoples of that area.

It's all rather silly anyway. Interracial marriage is here to stay and any attempt to get rid of it would be met with horrible pictures of families torn apart promptly followed by the supreme court getting to tear some lawyer into tiny quivering shreds.
 
so how do they devince races? here only members of the human race can marry eachother.....
 
Just to give a sense of how much attitudes have changed, below is a quote from the Supreme Court's 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia, which held anti-miscegenation statutes unconstitutional. The Court is quoting the Virginia trial court, which upheld the law against racial mixing based on the following reasoning:

Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And, but for the interference with his arrangement, there would be no cause for such marriage. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.
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Note that that's 1967, not 1867. This was a common view when a lot of people alive today were born.
 
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It should be noted that the article in question states that 46% of Republican primary voters think the state should ban inter-racial marriage. It is not a poll of the general population... not that it makes the poll results any more palatable.
 
Hercules Rockefeller said:
Could it be that some Mississippians are just afraid they have to start marrying outside of their own family?
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That's bigotry. How dare you perpetuate stereotypes.


It's pretty clear they were just illiterate. They were in a hurry to get back to playing the banjo and filled in whichever circle look the least "queer".
 
Weak Kitten said:
Wow, thanks for the info. It makes me ashamed to use the term Mongolian...but if they don't object then I'll probably keep using it. I just can't remember the proper name for the peoples of that area.

It's all rather silly anyway. Interracial marriage is here to stay and any attempt to get rid of it would be met with horrible pictures of families torn apart promptly followed by the supreme court getting to tear some lawyer into tiny quivering shreds.
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Mississippi as a state isn't trying to make it illegal.

The minority of Mississippians who opined that way are displaying defiance and/or a personal preference.

You see similar things in the south all the time. Antebellum state laws are refused being struck-down even though the southerns know there's no chance in hell of surviving a superior court challenge.

FWIW, everybody in the south looks-down on Mississippi on account of their non-reconstructed sentiments.
 
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