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Hope Yen
Washington Times
October 13, 2013
Interracial marriages in the U.S. have climbed to 4.8 million – a record 1 in 12 – as a steady flow of new Asian and Hispanic immigrants expands the pool of prospective spouses. Blacks are now substantially more likely to marry whites.
A Pew Research Center study, released Thursday, details an America where interracial unions and mixed-race children are challenging typical notions of race.
“The rise in interracial marriage indicates that race relations have improved over the past quarter-century,” said Daniel Lichter, a sociology professor at Cornell University. “Mixed-race children have blurred America’s color line. They often interact with others on either side of the racial divide and frequently serve as brokers between friends and family members of different racial backgrounds.”
In all, more than 15 percent of new marriages in 2010 were interracial.
The figures come from previous censuses as well as the 2008-2010 American Community Survey, which reaches 3 million households annually. The figures for “white” refer to those whites who are not of Hispanic ethnicity. For purposes of defining interracial marriages though, Hispanic is counted as a race by many in the demographic field.
The study finds that 8.4 percent of all current U.S. marriages are interracial, up from 3.2 percent in 1980. Hispanics and Asians remained the likeliest to marry outside their race, and the increasing number of interracial marriages mostly reflects those groups’ larger share of the general population.
States in the West where Asian and Hispanic immigrants are more numerous, including Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico and California, were among the most likely to have couples who “marry out” – more than 1 in 5. The West was followed by the South, Northeast and Midwest.
The numbers also coincide with Pew survey data showing greater public acceptance of mixed marriage, coming nearly a half-century after the Supreme Court in 1967 barred race-based restrictions on marriage.
