Anyone interested in that might want to look at the research on North Carolina's sterilization program (which lasted into the '70s basically, actually I think the last sterilization was 1980) or what happened in Minnesota during the New Deal.
Thanks for the information about North Carolina. Planned Parenthood also administered a sterilization program in Maryland that also ended in the early 1980s. "Problematic" / high welfare cost mothers (black in particular) were encouraged and in some cases, coerced to get sterilized. About 250 black women "volunteered" for sterilization. Amazingly, only 4 whites were sterilized through the program.
So with no nazis to put a bad name to the eugenics theme, it might stay in fashion much longer, and used more widespread in that fashion?
I think so. The nazi tag made eugneics unacceptable in any but the most crazed neo nazi circles. Prior to that, the concept had a far wider appeal. For example, a many of the eugenics advocates were educated academics and wealthy businessmen supported the concept.
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