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dixiegrrrrl

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3. Wait till you find the post Reconstruction period Jim Crow laws!

Reply to trof (Original post)

Thu Nov 29, 2012, 09:26 PM

Nov 2012

Wonder how many racial laws are sitting in the giant tome of Alabama laws, having never been actually repealed?

Every year or so a news item pops up that some state found the time to bowse its codes and "officially" repeal some archaic laws that had never been removed from the books.

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