Yeah, I'm sure the percentages were very different depending on which region you were in in the U.S.. And I'm guessing people in the "against interracial marriage" pockets didn't see themselves as hateful, but, if they were asked the question, thought it wasn't really an "appropriate" thing or some such . . .
Like same-sex marriage now. Sigh. People don't have to see themselves as vocal haters to still be party to oppression.
But yeah. I look at that graph and I think how old I was in the 90's and am grateful I grew up in a diverse state where it wasn't an issue. And I'm crazy grateful that nobody in my parents'
families were against my parents' match. (Interestingly, a lot of people in my mom's family are crazy conservative, and almost all my aunts and uncles married interracially and no one ever batted an eye. Just goes to show that people don't always fit stereotypes! They haven't been tested on same-sex unions yet, but I actually feel reasonably confident that wouldn't be an issue for them either. I'm pretty proud of them that way.
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