DC | 2007-07-10
The list of states which did NOT have antimiscegenation laws keeps changing.
One quoted wikipedia entry said that "the future District of Columbia" had never passed such a law.
That "the future" was probably referring to the fact that it got BACK a local government only recently. It has been DC since congress created it. DC HAD a local government until 1883, when its charter was removed by Republicans because it was a pro-Southern and Democratic. One part of the Compromise of 1850 was to abolish the slave TRADE, certainly not slavery, in DC.
The local government set up, and the same congress that passed the fourteenth amendment funded, a SEGREGATED public school system. You BET they had and enforced an anti-miscegenation law.
Minnesota had SEGREGATED schools in 1909. The most unlikely states had laws like this, despite the fact that they had practically no blacks to enforce them on.
It is very hard to prove a negative, especially since practically nobody knows any history. Vermont probably did have one, since New Hampshire and Maine did.
Massachusetts abolished slavery about 1783, but abolished its anti-intermarriage law at the height of the Civil War in 1863. No one then challenged the right of a state to have one, and Lord knows who bothered to pass them back then in places like New Hampshire and Minnesota.
NO ONE then thought that prohibiting intermarriage was an imposition on ONE race. Which is why I keep pointing out that the idea that "We the People" included all races was simply a no-go to the REAL writers of the Constitution.
One reason for the "DUH-MEN Chorus" maybe that most people have not spent their lives battling these people and heard all their arguments a thousand times. In discussing Hell as just a poor "quality of life" I half-seriously apologized for using the term.
Back when I was working actively as an ally of pro-lifers, "quality of life" was the pro-choice slogan in defending foreign aid to pay for abortions.
Now commenters keep saying they never HEARD of it. I saw as CHRISTMAS special a couple of years ago where a guy form Christmas Future who looked Oriental said everybody looked like him in the future, a fusion of races.
Pat Robertson said intermarriage would ease our race problems just recently. "Assimilation" is the mantra of liberals and conservatives. Yet commenters keep telling me they never HEARD of such a thing! Antis will say it one day and deny it the next.
I'm too OLD to play this game! If you never HEARD of it, maybe that's because someone who has been in this game forever has something to TEACH you.