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Voters will have chance to toss out Florida's obsolete 'alien land law'

"Florida is the last state in the nation still to have a constitution marked with one remnant of the Jim Crow era: a rule allowing legislators to ban Asian immigrants from owning land.

This November, voters have a chance to remove the so-called "alien land law" of 1926 from Florida's Constitution. That would complete a nationwide purging of the rules once in force in more than a dozen states."

JOSH HAFENBRACK in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.