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Article: Mixed marriages dramatically on the rise in U.S., study shows.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- March 22, 2001
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WASHINGTON _ Mixed marriages, once rare in the United States, are surging, due largely to the willingness of Asians and Hispanics to marry outside their racial and ethnic groups.
Nearly 34 years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the last laws prohibiting mixed-race marriages, the once forbidden unions now total about 1.5 million. That's a tenfold increase over 1960. Adding Hispanics who marry outside their ethnic group brings the total of mixed marriages to 3 million, based on an analysis of recent census survey data.
Today, only 5 percent of all U.S. marriages are mixed. But the steady growth of mixed marriages is powerful evidence that racial ...