112 W. A. PLECKER 



situation as developing in Virginia leads me to believe that that evil day, 

 even by simply maintaining the present improved situation, may be held off 

 some centuries farther into the future than might have been thought pos- 

 sible a few years ago. The weak point is that Virginia is standing alone 

 in this endeavor, and that even the southern states are not showing the 

 interest hoped for by Virginians in abandoning promptly their laws per- 

 mitting the intermarriage of whites with negroids of from one-sixteenth 

 to one-fourth negro heritage. In the north the situation seems almost 

 hopeless, owing to lack of public sentiment and resulting lack of laws 

 against racial intermarriage. In the south public sentiment is strong and 

 is holding the situation fairly well in hand without rigid laws. 



With the great migration of the southern mulattoes to the north, fre- 

 quently because of the changed social conditions which they find there, I 

 think that I am safe in saying that as time progresses the wave of racial 

 amalgamation will sweep upon Virginia from the north earlier than it will 

 from the south. 



