>>Wouldn't it be a factor that his mother was a white woman from the southern Plains states? (Oho, I bet you don't like that! LOL)
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>Doesn't bother me, but it ABSOLUTELY would have caused an uproar if not a multiple lynching in the late 1700s.

Don't you find it hilarious that the same group of people who disapproved of mixed marriages then, disapprove of not-mixed marriages today? The flip-floppers.