Interracial marriages have increased steadily since 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in 16 states.
There was a bit of divide along party lines on the subject, with 28 percent of Republicans and 12 percent of Democrats replying that interracial marriage was morally wrong.
Miscegenation (/ m ɪ ˌ s ɛ dʒ ɪ ˈ n eɪ ʃ ən /; from the Latin miscere “to mix” + genus “kind”) is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, or procreation.
Article and statistics from the 2000 Census about the history and contemporary characteristics of interracial dating and marriage among Asian Americans.
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Fifty years after the U.S. Supreme court deemed anti-miscegenation unlawful, interracial marriage is up 17 percent.
Interracial marriage in the United States has been legal in all U.S. states since the 1967 Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia …
Interracial marriage is on the rise, making more than a fivefold increase since 1967, when only 3 percent of newlyweds were intermarried, according to a Pew Research Center report released Thursday.
Attitudes towards interracial marriage in the United States have changed over time. Marriages between people of different races are becoming more common — in 2000, 7.4% of all marriages were between spouses of different races, whereas in 2010, that figure rose to 9.5%. Researchers at the U.S
A history of interracial marriage and miscegenation laws both passed and struck down in the United States, from the 1600’s to present day.
