Catholics were twice as likely to be in an interracial marriage than the general population.
While women my age scowl and frown at these aging, Upper West Side Boomers pushing strollers as the hand of the thin, blonde wife 20 years their junior rests lightly on their arm, I feel a kinship with the old goats.
The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858.
If there were a lot of mixed people then the biggots would either have to admit being bigots by doing genetic testing, or accept that they couldn't tell and stop their shit.