In a message dated 03/31/2002 7:48:24 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> What we are dealing with are shifting notions about how best to ascribe
> certain advantages, privileges, and rights to persons with the proper
> ancestry, while denying the same to persons without that ancestry--all in
> circumstances that were making the actual description of ancestry more and
> more complicated with each passing generation. This reached a nadir of
> absurdity in the so-called "one-drop" rules of the 1920s and 1930s.
>

I believe the "one-drop" law stayed into effect in Virginia until the late
1960's.

Selma

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