TIL: interracial marriages in America

[timelets]

Yesterday I learned that marriages between blacks and whites were illegal in 17 US states until 1967.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_United_States

Comments

[tijd]

At Bob Jones University (BJU), even after it was forced to admit black students, interracial dating was prohibited till 2000. A clash between BJU and IRS about its tax-exempt status in 1970s motivated the mass exodus of evangelicals in 1980 from Carter to Reagan and created the Christian-conservative coalition that eventually led us to Trump.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Jones_University_v._United_States

it is certainly true that evangelicals, having helped propel Carter to the White House four years earlier, turned dramatically against him, their fellow evangelical, during the course of his presidency. And the catalyst for their political activism was not, as often claimed, opposition to abortion. Although abortion had emerged as a rallying cry by 1980, the real roots of the religious right lie not the defense of a fetus but in the defense of racial segregation.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133

[timelets]

Юг как раз тогда начал переходить к нынешним республиканцам из-за расовых отношений. Раньше они терпеть не могли партию Линкольна, который освободил рабов.

[tijd]

"Южная Стратегия" помогла избрать Никсона, но оказалась недостаточной для победы над Картером. Вторым шагом в конце 1970ых стала мобилизация религиозных избирателей (белых христиан), в том числе с использованием новой технологии массовых рассылок почты.

They were organized into an effective alliance by television evangelists pushing moral issues, such as right-tolife and prayer in the classroom, and by the men who have constructed an extrapolitical network of computerized mailing lists to galvanize conservative support nationally and lo-cally. By integrating these forces, a new conservative coalition emerged that overcame historic regional differences, linking Washington-haters in the Southern Bible Belt with the Middle Western Farm Belt and the Sagebrush Rebellion of the West.
They received political guidance through the medium of a postman or a preacher instead of a precinct captain. It worked like a well-oiled machine, but not as a political machine with traditional party loyalties. This represented a historic upheaval in American politics.
''There were two things that hit us,'' Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York said after the election. ''First was money, money, money, money. ... Then there was ... organization and technology. ... We are so far behind that we ... are in danger of becoming the permanent minority party.''
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/08/magazine/thunder-from-the-right.html

Для евангелистских пасторов наступление на расовую сегрегацию в учебных заведениях представлялось еще большей опасностью, чем отмена запретов на аборты.