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46 Percent of Mississippi Republicans Want Interracial Marriage Banned
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsA new poll gauging Mississippi Republicans' preferences going into the 2012 election ended up revealing something more startling: 46 percent of GOP voters in the state think interracial marriage should be illegal. Results were announced Thursday by Public Policy Polling, a polling firm based in North Carolina. The company asked 400 Republican primary voters about their preferences for candidates for state and national offices, as well as their views on interracial marriage. jupiterimages In Mississippi, 46 percent of GOP primary voters think interracial marriage should be illegal, ...
C-SPAN Supreme Court Series: Race and Marriage
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThis is the eighth in a series of Politics Daily columns to complement C-SPAN's broadcasts this fall of audiotape recordings of some of the most famous and important Supreme Court oral arguments of the past 50 years. The broadcasts afford most Americans their first opportunity to hear the actual words spoken by the justices and the lawyers before them in arguments that shaped the laws that have shaped our lives in countless ways. The latest tape in the series, focusing on the interracial marriage case Loving v. Virginia from 1967, will be heard on C-SPAN Radio at 6 p.m. ET on Saturday, Dec. 4. ...
Louisiana Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell Refuses to Marry Interracial Couples
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyLouisiana Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell said he refused to grant an interracial couple a marriage license, but don't get the wrong idea: "I'm not a racist," Bardwell claims. Heavens, no! What could possibly give anyone that idea? Perhaps, it was this: "I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom." Or, perhaps it was this: "I don't do interracial marriages because I don't want to put children in a situation they didn't bring on themselves. In my ...
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