In Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court ruled that Virginia's law banning marriage between persons of different races was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. What attitude led many to disagree with this decision?

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The attitude of many who disagreed with Loving v. Virginia was rooted in the belief of endogamy, or the practice of marrying within one's own social, ethnic, or religious group. They believed that race-mixing was against God's will and that it threatened the purity of separate racial identities. This perspective was prevalent in many parts of the country at the time and was used to justify laws that prohibited interracial marriage.

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