INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES

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INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES
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INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES
1970 -
310,000 interracial marriages
.7
1980 -
651,000 interracial marriages
1.3
1992 -
1,161,000 interracial marriages
2.2
2000 -
2,669,558 interracial marriages
4.9
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INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES
1972
1978
29 APPROVE 60 DISAPPROVE
36 APPROVE 54 DISAPPROVE
1991
48 APPROVE 42 DISAPPROVE
2001
65 APPROVE (WHITES 63, BLACKS 79)
26 DISAPPROVE (WHITES 29, BLACKS 15)
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INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES
2003 Ford Study 30 reported being against
Black-White marriages but more willing to accept
White-Hispanic or White-Asian marriages
Reasons
1) Skin color
2) Economic prosperity
3) History of ethnic strife
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ASIAN WHITE
- Asian women 250 more likely to marry a White
man than an Asian man to marry a White woman
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ASIAN BLACK
- Asian women 598 more likely to marry a Black
man than a Asian man to marry a Black woman
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BLACK WHITE
2000 239,477 Black men with White women

95,831 Black women with White men