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with no ascertainable non-white heritage, and classifying as negro one with 

 any ascertainable trace of the negro. In the United States, Virginia, 

 Georgia, and Alabama meet this requirement. The states forbidding 

 marriage between whites and negroes or persons of negro descent are: 

 Arizona, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, 

 and West Virginia. Those forbidding intermarriage between whites and 

 persons of one-eighth or more of negro are: Florida, Indiana, Maryland, 

 Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, South 

 Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Those forbidding intermarriage between 

 whites and persons of one-fourth or more of negro are: Kentucky and 

 Oregon. Those forbidding intermarriage between whites and persons of 

 one-half or more are: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, 

 and Wyoming. Those states with no restrictions as to intermarriage be- 

 tween the races are: Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois, Iowa, 

 Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, 

 New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, 

 Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. 



If any other states or countries of either North or South America, or 

 Europe, offer any legal obstacle to intermarriage between the races, I have 

 no knowledge of it. 



Australia is handling the situation with great wisdom, by neither allowing 

 miscegenation nor even permitting the migration of colored races to the 

 country. Absolute separation is the only safeguard against ultimate 

 amalgamation. 



In South Africa the early Cape Colony settlers maintained a rigid color 

 line until their efforts were brought to naught by the negrophilism of reli- 

 gious zealots, who influenced the English government to force racial equality 

 and intermarriage upon the Colony. Many withdrew and in the face of 

 great difficulties established themselves in the Orange Free State and the 

 Transvaal, where they have striven against terrible obstacles to maintain 

 their racial ideals. Cape Colony is lost to the white race. The future only 

 can show whether the northern colonies can maintain their new country as a 

 white man's land. 



Thoughtful men who live in the southern states of this country in the 

 presence of a large negro population, and who love their homeland, see in 

 their minds, when they gaze into the future, pictures of lost racial identity 

 which fill them with the gravest apprehension. When these same thinking 

 men, who by research have possession of the facts, raise their voices in 

 warning, they are met with such a degree of lethargy that they at times 

 border on despair. Sometimes this lethargy changes to opposition, ridicule, 



