A poll released this week shows that 46% percent of Mississippi Republicans believe that interracial marriage should be illegal. That staggering number is accompanied by only 40% who believe that adults should be free to marry who they want. This poll just happens to come out on the anniversary of the argument in Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), where the Supreme Court in a 9-0 vote struck down Virginia’s anti-miscegenation statute.
The poll means that one out of two Mississippi Republicans want to return to the pre-Loving status where (under Pace v. Alabama (1883)) couples could be thrown into jail for marrying outside of their race. In the case of Mildred Loving and Richard Perry Loving, Virginia police raid their home in an effort to find them in a sexual act to bring a criminal charge but quickly changed the charge when shown a marriage license of Washington, D.C. They were charged under Section 20-58 of the Virginia Code, which prohibited interracial couples from being married out of state and then returning to Virginia as well as the miscegenation provision under Section 20-59. After they pleaded guilty, Judge Leon M. Bazile handed down a one-year sentence (suspended for 25 years on condition that the couple leave the state of Virginia) with these infamous words:
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 marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.
The argument before the Supreme Court was heard on April 10, 1967 — 44 years ago. If accurate, this poll would indicate that four decades have not changed many minds in the Mississippi GOP.
Source: Public Policy Polling as seen on Reddit.
Jonathan Turley
Pretty rich coming from a population of diminished genetics. Thought they last tried a parallel experiment back in 35′ “The Nuremberg Laws” I believe it was called. LMAO
I’m sorry, I thought it was 2011, not 1811 …
Ahhhh … further evidence racism is alive and well in Ol’ Dixie …
Must protect the purity of our women folk from the pollution of mongrel races, don’t you know. Now excuse me whilst I slip out to the cabins out back for a little dip of the pen in the ol ink well.
We live in a world gone mad.
Why not marry who you want and leave the rest to there own devises….
And that surprises us WHY? Come on folks it’s Mississippi…just imagine if this poll was done in Alabama.
This is a belief held by southern baptists.
Stunning… We are, indeed, living in a world gone mad — to use Frank’s words…
The real question would have been why they felt this way. You can run into political / societal “micro-climates” where the actual reasons for belief are different than what is commonly expected.
As for wanting it to be illegal – that’s just the normal “there aught to be a law!” crap that so many people fall into.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/07/americas-10-most-segregated-cities_n_845092.html#s261062&title=1_Detroit_Michigan
72% of those Republicans surveyed identified their race as “African-American”.
Acts 17:26 and 27
“[The Lord] hath made of ONE BLOOD all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us…”
All groups come from Noah and his line. Clearly, the Lord grouped them together by languages, which then led to different physical features (adaptations).
Nowhere is it forbidden that the different groups may no intermarry.
not* intermarry.
nada lib:
please site reference for that statement.
The survey is very telling … Barbour, whose state is just about dead last in terms of economics, education, child welfare, etc. than any other state in the Union, has an 85% approval rating in job performance and 70% have a favorable opinion of the Wasilly Hillbilly …
“72% of those Republicans surveyed identified their race as “African-American”.”
I looked through the study and am unable to find this information … what’s up with that, troll?
This is the number that jumps out at me:
“. That staggering number is accompanied by only 40% who believe that adults should be free to marry who they want.”
Now thats very interesting.
“This is a belief held by southern baptists.”
Hate to butt in on all the Southern bashing, but this is not a belief that belongs exclusively to either Southerners or Baptists. I’m willing to bet these numbers hold up with a few percentage points anywhere in the nation.
Moar, The difference is that the Southern Baptist Convention thinks it is based on scripture.
Tootie
The only point is to not be unequally yoked which refers to different religious beliefs.
Swarthmore mom: so do the Mormons. And although it may not be official church doctrine in most American religions, many of their members hold the belief and justify it by saying that the basis for it can be found in Scripture.
As with most of Scripture, if you look hard enough you’ll find what you are looking for.
But I repeat my point: this isn’t exclusive to Mississippi, or the South, or Baptists, or Republicans. I am willing to bet that a national survey would give numbers not very different from what have been cited here.
I wish someone would do a poll of those in mixed marriages and what they think should be done with that 46% percent of Mississippi Republicans.
Too bad for whitey that analysis of 2010 Census data suggests that America might be become a white-minority nation faster than previously predicted.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/06/racial-generation-gap-census-analysis_n_845276.html
If all those crackers in Mississippi are so concerned about this, then they should take their genitalia out of their hands and start putting them to use.
On white women only, of course.
Morons.
Seems appropriate…
http://youtu.be/AUR9yWzN3zc
Once more with feeling?
Hatred is?
Why have I never met an actual “white” person or an actual “black” person?
Why do I only encounter people who are of the one-and-only diversely Colored Race of humans?
As I directly observe we humans are, and only are, colored people, miscegenation is actually impossible.
Then there is that silly DNA evidence that all living humans have as ancestors those few hundred folks who lived in a small area where they survived a mass extinction of humans some tens of thousands of years ago?
Are humans relentlessly striving for yet another mass extinction of humans?
No wonder science and scientists are utterly contemptible?
Imagine what might happen were people permitted to be honest with self and others?
The end of the world as we now know it?
Would that, were it ever possible, be undesirable or desirable?
Buddha,
you hit the nail on the head. Mississippi remains stagnant while the world moves on from the 19th century. Remind to add Mississippi to my list of states to stay out of.
Rafflaw,
I hope Colorado’s not on that list. We got Mountains, Beer, and Trout.
One has to wonder if that 40% ever read the newspapers. How well has “separation” of the sub-cultures served us so far?
I personally view miscegenation as the only hope we have.
Patric,
And might I inquire as to whether you know who Rashida Jones is? Actress on “Parks and Recreations” and daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton? Great galloping gophers! I tell you it was love at first sight. Then she spoke and sealed the deal. Beautiful, smart and funny! She so charmed Craig Ferguson, he came out from behind the desk to interview her the first time she was on his show. I tell you she’s trying to take the place of the Rachael Weisz in my Hollywood girlfriend book. She just might succeed.
Funny thing, I have always thought it prudent that a law should issue forbidding 46% (or even more) of Mississippians from marrying or engaging in any other activity promoting procreation.
This doesn’t surprise me much. I’m white, but I’ll tell you there is more racism in this world than people realize. In my state I see confederate flags flying all over. There are more hillbilly/rednecks than I care to count. These are usually the birthers who could have a copy of the presidents birth certificate in their hand, framed, and would still claim its fake. These are the people who say their rights are being taken away but then when you ask them which ones have nothing to say. They’re the ones spitting tobacco, using the “N” word only at home, raising wonderful little racist, minority hating children.
They’re tea partiers, mostly.
Part of the issues relate to simply having too many laws and creating laws without really determining that they serve a public purpose.
46% of the rest of the country thinks mississippi should have been allowed to secede.
and that doesn’t count people who have actually been to mississippi. those #’s are even higher
a ballad about Richard and Mildred Loving