<P> As the US expanded, however, all the new slave states as well as many new free states such as Illinois and California enacted such laws . </P> <P> Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, South Carolina and Alabama legalized interracial marriage for some years during the Reconstruction period . Anti-miscegenation laws rested unenforced, were overturned by courts or repealed by the state government (in Arkansas and Louisiana). However, after white Democrats took power in the South during "Redemption", anti-miscegenation laws were re-enacted and once more enforced, and in addition Jim Crow laws were enacted in the South which also enforced other forms of racial segregation . In Florida, the new Constitution of 1888 prohibited marriage between "a white person and a person of negro descent" (Article XVI, Section 24). </P> <P> A number of northern and western states permanently repealed their anti-miscegenation laws during the 19th century . This, however, did little to halt anti-miscegenation sentiments in the rest of the country . Newly established western states continued to enact laws banning interracial marriage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries . Between 1913 and 1948, 30 out of the then 48 states enforced anti-miscegenation laws . Only Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Alaska, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia never enacted them . </P> <P> At least three proposed constitutional amendments intended to bar interracial marriage in the United States were introduced in Congress . </P>

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