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>back in the days of Jim Crow it was sometimes possible for a particular "black" person to become legally "white" just by crossing state lines. The "One drop r

• hihihihi1234 5y ago
  The one-drop rule wasn't universal; some states had a less stringent definition of who counted as black. E.g. according to Wikipedia, Florida passed a law in 1865 stipulating that you were black if you had at least one black great-grandparent. So if you were only one-sixteenth black, you'd have been considered black under the one-drop rule, but you weren't black in Florida. Which is precisely my point. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule