These historical maps reveal which states were making the more progressive or moral stance on social justice issues, and who weren’t. How did your state fare?
Slavery laws before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863
Women's suffrage laws before passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920
Segregation laws before Brown vs Board Of Education in 1954
Interracial marriage laws before a 1967 Supreme Court decision deemed anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional
Gay marriage rights in 2012
So, did your state get it right?
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That's the way is should be!
The dem senator Robert Byrd who died recently, held high office in the KKK.
It is the dems, not the reps who are the party of racism.
Did your grade school teacher just tell you that? Republicans believe in what MLK jr. said, " I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." They do not believe in 'special' rights, hyphenated citizenship, taking from on to give to another, and different types of justice.
Once you grow up, meet new people an travel the world, I'm sure you'll change your perspective. If not, your parents failed.