{"id":14827,"date":"2013-03-20T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T04:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14827"},"modified":"2015-07-01T14:47:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T14:47:29","slug":"the-most-perfect-expression-of-the-white-ideal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14827","title":{"rendered":"The most perfect expression of the white ideal&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a> has made the first serious attempt to stay or postpone the evil day when this is no longer a white man\u2019s country. Her recently enacted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14135\" target=\"_blank\">law \u201cfor the preservation of racial integrity\u201d<\/a> is, in the words of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopediavirginia.org\/Cox_Earnest_Sevier_1880-1966\" target=\"_blank\">Major E. S. [Earnest Sevier]\u00a0Cox<\/a>, \u201cthe most perfect expression of the white ideal, and the most important <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugenics\" target=\"_blank\">eugenical<\/a> effort that has been made during the past 4,000 years.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Ashby_Plecker\" target=\"_blank\">W. A. Plecker<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14736\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia\u2019s Attempt to Adjust the Color Problem<\/a>,\u201d <em>The American Journal of Public Health<\/em>, Volume 15, Number 2 (1925): 111-115. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1320724\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1320724\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia has made the first serious attempt to stay or postpone the evil day when this is no longer a white man\u2019s country. Her recently enacted law \u201cfor the preservation of racial integrity\u201d is, in the words of Major E. S. [Earnest Sevier]\u00a0Cox, \u201cthe most perfect expression of the white ideal, and the most important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1750,10509,10508,6771,6770,6372,1857,2474],"class_list":["post-14827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-american-journal-of-public-health","tag-e-s-cox","tag-earnest-sevier-cox","tag-the-american-journal-of-public-health","tag-w-a-plecker","tag-walter-a-plecker","tag-walter-ashby-plecker","tag-walter-plecker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}