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Well at least their history is consistent. They were also the state that most strongly resisted making interracial marriage legal. (To those who would say that several states had such laws on the books at the time, Virginia was more actively enforcing it than most. That is why it was Virginia that got sued for putting an interracial couple in jail. By, and I can't make this up, a loving couple actually named Loving.)

This seems really weird, given that Virginia was extremely important back during the revolution.

...what does the revolution have to do with interracial marriage legislation?

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