It was far more common for Chinese males to marry non-white females in many states. One of the U.S. Census of Louisiana alone in 1880 showed 57% Chinese-American men were married to African-American women, and 43% to White American women.As a result of miscegenation laws against Chinese males. Many Chinese males either cohibited their relationship in secret or married with black females. Of the Chinese men who lived in Mississippi, 20% and 30% of the Chinese males had married black women in many different years before 1940.