>> “ I am merely pointing out that civil marriage and gun control resulted from the attempts by individual states to prevent certain outcomes - marriage between whites and other races, and people other than whites possessing guns.” <<
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Correct!
We call them “Jim Crow” laws.
“Correct!
We call them ‘Jim Crow’ laws”
Jim Crow laws only covered one region (the Old South), and not uniformly, during one era (roughly from the 1890s to the civil rights movement), again not uniformly. What that has to do with the origin or appropriateness of civil marriage I have no idea.