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12 cze 2017 · Among all married people in 2015 (not just those who recently wed), 10% are now intermarried – 11 million in total. Here are more key findings from Pew Research Center about interracial and interethnic marriage and families on the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision.
- 1. Trends and patterns in intermarriage
The share of recently married blacks with a spouse of a...
- 1. Trends and patterns in intermarriage
Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different "races" or racialized ethnicities. In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States, Nazi Germany and apartheid-era South Africa as miscegenation (Latin: 'mixing types').
7 lut 2023 · The percentage of interracial marriage among newlyweds increased to over six times from 1967 to 2019. According to the Research, the share of newlyweds married to a spouse of a different race shows a steep rise from 3% to 19% over six decades.
24 paź 2024 · There are seven types of interracial/interethnic married-couple combinations that make up 95.1 percent of all such married couples. The largest of these is non-Hispanic whites married to Hispanics, which increased in 43.2 percent of counties.
Interracial marriage has been legal throughout the United States since at least the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court (Warren Court) decision Loving v. Virginia (1967) that held that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional via the 14th Amendment adopted in 1868.
18 maj 2017 · The share of recently married blacks with a spouse of a different race or ethnicity has more than tripled, from 5% in 1980 to 18% in 2015. Among recently married whites, rates have more than doubled, from 4% up to 11%.
18 maj 2017 · The view that the rise in the number of interracial marriages is good for society is particularly prevalent among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents; 49% in this group say this, compared with 28% of Republicans and those who lean Republican.
