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I think I can tell y'all the possible origin of this custom and NO, I don't agree with it but I'm just reportin' here. Don't kill the messenger.
Back during integration in the sixties and seventies, many black high schools and white high schools were combined as the easiest way to meet government regulations. Immediately, a lot of people of both races began to holler "They won't like our music at the proms" or "It's not fair to have one Miss ___ High School because if you have more judges from one race, they won't like the beauty standards of the other." Sooo...thus began the separate proms and "Miss White___HS and Miss Black___ HS."
The main thing that seems to have put an end to dual beauty queens around here is the influx of immigrants. Now our city high school would have to add Hispanic and Asian beauty queens plus we seem to have a lot of multiracial students lately and it was just getting out of hand, so we have one HC Queen (Hispanic the last 2 years) plus a large court.
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