Re: Earth Abides, by George R Stewart

"Mike Stone" <mwstone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Incidentally, California, where EA is largely set, repealed its law
against
> interracial marriage only in 1948, so when Stewart started writing it
was
> probably still on the books.


Whoops! They didn't repeal it. the State Supreme Court struck it down.


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> If Wiki is to be believed (<g>) 29 other states still had such laws at
the
> time of EA's publication, and 16 Southern and "Border" states retained
> them until quashed by the Supreme Court in 1967.

17 including Maryland, which repealed its law in the year of the SCOTUS
ruling.

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Mike Stone - Peterborough, England

Always drink upriver from the herd (song title)