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It determined a person's status under the black codes. In the South it became known as the "one-drop rule,'' meaning that a single drop of "black blood" makes a person a black.
Yes, according to the "One drop rule". That people still follow.
If it were not true, it would not have become the rule!
In the pre-Civil War era of the US, the "one-drop" rule was a social and legal principle of racial classification that any person with even one ancestor of sub-Saharan-African ancestry is considered black. By 1910, twenty US states had classified citizens by blood-fraction, most using one-fourth or one-eighth.