With legal racial segregation in force across the South, topics such as racial mixing were taboo in general, as laws against miscegenation had been proposed in both federal and state legislatures after Democrats took the white house in 1912.
With legal racial segregation and disenfranchisement of most blacks having been in force across the South since the turn of the century, topics such as racial mixing were taboo in general. Laws against miscegenation had been proposed in both federal and state legislatures after Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected as President in 1912.