Reading my previous post about attitudes toward interracial marriage in the late 1960s, my wife e-mails me a link to an article by Steve Sailer in NR from a few years ago. Sailer wrote, “[I]n January 1967 the Supreme Court struck down the anti-interracial-marriage laws in Virginia and 18 other states. And in 1967 these laws were not mere leftover scraps from an extinct era. Two years before, at the crest of the civil-rights revolution, a Gallup poll found that 72 per cent of Southern whites and 42 per cent of Northern whites still wanted to ban interracial marriage.”