• GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Billy Graham wasn’t around in 1860. The article said that he died in 2018 at age 99, so he was born in either 1918 or 1919 nearly 60 years after 1860.

    According to the 1960 Census, taken during Graham’s lifetime, it appears the numbers dont line up with your statement. In 1960, the total population was 179,323,175 and the total nonwhite population was 20,491,443. If we keep the 1 in 20 estimate (or 5%), then there was an estimated 8,966,159 LGBTQ+ people in 1960, less than half of the amount of the non-white population. about 4 times as many non-whites in 1860 during the other guy’s lifetime.

    https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1960/pc-s1-supplementary-reports/pc-s1-10.pdf

    Edit: just realized I was mistaken and have corrected my statement. Sorry about that!