Interracial Dating Quotes
The University was a fundamentalist Christian institution that had little standing amongst academic institutions, but was one of the radical Christian right’s bulwarks. The ban was also illegal. This statement took great political courage on McCain’s part. The then base of the Republican party included Evangelical Christians and Southerners who had become Republicans when the Democrats passed the Civil Rights Bill of 1964. For most of them, the worst thing about desegregation would be the “mongrelization” of the White race by interbreeding. McCain was criticizing a leading evangelical school about a very sensitive racial integration issue. Most Republicans were either silent or supportive of the “right” of the school to deny others their rights.