Interacial Marriage

It was quite surprising to me that the poll in Missisippi had only 40% of republicans believeing that interacial marriage should be legal. I thought that as a society we were over this but apparently not. My parents were married in NY and then moved to Virginia. My dad says they had it a little easy cuz they lived on a Naval base but said they still faced discrimination. There we times when my father would talke my mom out to dinner and the waitress would not serve him or even acknowledge his existence. My mom has also told me the story of when her sister found out she was dating my dad and asked her "when are u gonna stop punishing mom and dad and get rid of this black boy?" That was back in the late 80s so i assumed by now we would be much mor eused to interacial relationships in our society but i guess there are still people against it.