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I was living in Virginia when I turned 18. Virginia was one of the last states to vote for the
19th Amendment. The amendment giving women the right to vote was ratified on August 18, 1920. Virginia finally joined the party in 1952, 32 years later, long after it was ratified. The last state to vote "yes" for votes for women was Mississippi, which voted "yes" in March of 1984--sixty-four years after it was first put to a vote.
Is it any wonder that the "Equal Rights Amendment" never passed? Are you old enough to remember the scare tactics employed by those who didn't want to make "equality" official? There will be WOMEN IN COMBAT! We'll have UNISEX BATHROOMS!! Well, both events have come about and the world didn't end, but women still aren't officially equal.
