Talk:Walter Plecker

Indian/mulatto issues

Plecker's position was that many of the Virginians claiming to be Indians were in fact "mulattos", or primarily white and black ancestry. Plecker collected copious evidence of this in census records and other old documents. Clearly Plecker's position is debatable. However, this article does not even present Plecker's position, and instead simply presents the opposing side as if it were uncontested fact. I am proposing to rewrite this article in order to incorporate Plecker's own views of what he was doing, and his own rationale.Verklempt 23:13, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, where is the article that you were going to write 3 years ago? I keep an open mind, trust me on that. It is my business as one of the descendant parties in this history to know the truth, so I am interested in what you have, otherwise we have to go on what information we have to date. Vbswte (talk) 04:57, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

I don't know that the main issue is even whether he was factually correct about historical genealogical issues -- it was that he used his official state government position as (in effect) a racial-purity commissar to make the lives of certain marginalized groups as miserable as he could. AnonMoos (talk) 07:45, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

To be more specific, anyone who had the slightest bit of black ancestry, in however remote a generation, could never be anything else, according to Plecker, than a phony pseudo-Indian faker wannabe. Very few people would consider this a reasonable position nowadays... AnonMoos (talk) 16:48, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

party affiliation

Which political party Mr. Plecker belong to? Was he a Democrat or a Republican? If he's Republican, then it explains his racismSrb4271 (talk) 16:53, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

I doubt that his government position was a formally partisan one, but in the context of 1930s Virginia politics, he was much likelier to be a Democrat (see Byrd Organization). Republicans didn't begin to gain significant white support in most of the South until the 1964 Goldwater campaign, and it wasn't till the late 1970s that large numbers of southern white politicians and voters changed parties. AnonMoos (talk) 07:45, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

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Another Washington Post article

This article doesn't refer to Plecker by name (which is why I'm not adding it to the Wikipedia article now), but the "paper genocide" referred to is largely due to his efforts: "Va. lawmakers seek recognition of tribe erased by `paper genocide'" by Justin Wm. Moyer, The Washington Post, September 20, 2023. AnonMoos (talk) 18:33, 21 September 2023 (UTC)