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Westlaw Insider's Jon Hanke has a very interesting post today about the California Supreme Court decision, Perez v. Lippold, 32 Cal. 2d 711, which voided California's ban on interracial marriages on October 1, 1948, 19 years before the US Supreme Court decided Loving v. Virginia.  A striking poll statistic cited by Hanke: in 1958, 96 percent of white Americans disapproved of interracial marriage. Also, Alabama was the last state to formally remove its ban on interracial marriages from state law. The Alabama constitutional provision containing the ban was repealed by referendum in 2000, 33 years after the Court's Loving decision. 

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