Virginia that such laws were unconstitutional (via the 14th Amendment adopted in 1868) in the remaining 16 states.
Nine states never enacted such laws 25 states had repealed their laws by 1967, when the United States Supreme Court ruled in Loving v. Some such laws predate the establishment of the United States, some dating to the later 17th or early 18th century, a century or more after the complete racialization of slavery. In the United States, anti-miscegenation laws were passed by most states to prohibit interracial marriage, and in some cases also prohibit interracial sexual relations.
