Interracial Marriages Soar via Live Science
Racial and ethnic trends Of the 3.8 million adults who married in 2008, 9 percent of whites, 16 percent of blacks, 26 percent of Hispanics and 31 percent of Asians married someone whose race or ethnicity was different from their own. For whites these shares are more than double what they had been in 1980, and for blacks they are nearly triple. For Hispanics and Asians, these rates are little changed from 1980. Black-white couplings represented only one-in-nine of the new interracial or interethnic marriages in 2008. White-Hispanic couples made up the lion’s share, 41 percent of these new marriages, while white-Asian couples made up 15 percent.
The story noted at the time President Obama was born, one in one thousand marriages were between a white and black spouse now it is one in sixty. We are more likely to be born from parents with differing ethnicities or races. I've notice when answering ethnicity and race in paper work, it may be a blank spot to personally fill out rather then having options.
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