Western states that were newly admitted to the Union after the Civil War passed anti-miscegenation laws, which were often directed against marriages between Europeans and Asians, there the increasing immigrant population but also prohibited marriages with blacks and Native Americans. For instance, Utah's marriage law had an anti-miscegenation component passed in 1899. Until it was repealed in 1963, it prohibited marriage between a white and anyone considered a Negro (Black American), mulatto (half black), quadroon (one-quarter black), octoroon (one-eighth black), "Mongolian" (East Asian), or member of the "Malay race" (a historic racial classification that included Filipinos). No restriction was placed on interracial marriages between non-whites.