Sometimes it is easy to forget how far we've come in the past half century. In 1955 the Virginia Supreme court wrote "the state court concluded that the State's legitimate purposes were "to preserve the racial integrity of its citizens," and to prevent "the corruption of blood," "a mongrel breed of citizens," and "the obliteration of racial pride," obviously an endorsement of the doctrine of White Supremacy. Id., at 90, 87 S. E. 2d, at 756." (quote from the SCOTUS decision Loving v. Virginia) and in 1967 they upheld this decision. 1967 was only 36 years ago.