Pheonixops
Proud Liberal
Of course the Times left out crucial facts but that's no surprise. As Paul Harvey would have said here's the rest of the story. In 1871 democrat rep. Andrew King Missouri proposed a Constitutional amendment against interracial marriages.
In 1912 and 1913 democrat Seaborn Roddenbery of Ga proposed an amendment against interracial marriage.
In 1928 democrat senator Coleman Blease of S.C. proposed setting punishment for interracial marriages.
Se a pattern of democrat bigotry yet?
Northern states outlawed anti-miscegnation ...Indiana in 1965, Colorado in 1957, Md. in 1967, Montana in 1953, Nebraska in 1963, Nevada in 1959 ND-1955, SD 1957, Utah, 1963
Well, they may have been democrats, but their political philosophy was Conservative because they didn't want to change the status quo and they wanted to keep their traditions, which was "White Supremacy".