{"id":13655,"date":"2015-06-12T09:55:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T14:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/interracial-marriage-who-is-marrying-out\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:20:00","slug":"interracial-marriage-who-is-marrying-out","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2015\/06\/12\/interracial-marriage-who-is-marrying-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Interracial marriage: Who is \u2018marrying out\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Note: For more recent data on race and marriage, see <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2017\/06\/12\/key-facts-about-race-and-marriage-50-years-after-loving-v-virginia\/\">this 2017 post<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2015\/06\/12\/interracial-marriage-who-is-marrying-out\/ft_15-06-12-interracial\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-270724\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f0eee7\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f0eee7;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"312\" height=\"386\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12.Interracial.png?resize=312,386 312w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" class=\"wp-image-25242 not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12.Interracial.png\" alt=\"Interracial Marriages Vary by Race\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today marks the 48<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/partners.nytimes.com\/library\/national\/race\/061367race-ra.html\">Loving v. Virginia<\/a><\/em>, which struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in 16 states. Interracial marriages have increased steadily since then.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2013, a record-high 12% of newlyweds married someone of a different race, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2015\/06\/11\/chapter-5-race-and-social-connections-friends-family-and-neighborhoods\/#race-marriage-and-intermarriage\">Pew Research Center analysis<\/a>\u00a0of census data. (This share does not take into account the \u201cinterethnic\u201d marriages between Hispanics and non-Hispanics, which we covered in an earlier report on <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2012\/02\/16\/the-rise-of-intermarriage\/\">intermarriage<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking beyond newlyweds, 6.3% of all marriages were between spouses of different races in 2013, up from less than 1% in 1970.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><!--more--><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some racial groups are more likely to intermarry than others. Of the 3.6 million adults who got married in 2013, 58% of American Indians, 28% of Asians, 19% of blacks and 7% of whites have a spouse whose race was different from their own.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2015\/06\/12\/interracial-marriage-who-is-marrying-out\/ft_15-06-12-intermarriage-newlyweds\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-270723\"><img data-dominant-color=\"e5ebeb\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e5ebeb;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"446\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12.Intermarriage.Newlyweds.png?resize=310,446 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" class=\"wp-image-25237 not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12.Intermarriage.Newlyweds.png\" alt=\"Marrying Out of One's Race\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The overall numbers mask significant gender gaps within some racial groups. Among blacks, men are much more likely than women to marry someone of a different race. Fully a quarter of black men who got married in 2013 married someone who was not black. Only 12% of black women married outside of their race.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Asians, the gender pattern goes in the opposite direction: Asian women are much more likely than Asian men to marry someone of a different race. Among newlyweds in 2013, 37% of Asian women married someone who was not Asian, while 16% of Asian men married outside of their race.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American Indians have the highest interracial marriage rate among all single-race groups. Women are slightly more likely to &#8220;marry out&#8221; than men in this group: 61% of American Indian female newlyweds married outside their race, compared with 54% of American Indian male newlyweds.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trend toward more interracial marriages is undoubtedly related, at least in part, to changing social norms. Our previous surveys have documented growing acceptance among the public. In 2014, 37% of Americans said having more people of different races marrying each other was a <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2014\/03\/07\/millennials-in-adulthood\/\">good thing for society<\/a>, up from 24% four years earlier. Only 9% in 2014 said this trend was a bad thing for society, and 51% said it doesn\u2019t make much difference.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interracial marriages have increased steadily since 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in 16 states. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"sub_headline":"","sub_title":"","_prc_public_revisions":[],"_ppp_expiration_hours":0,"_ppp_enabled":false,"ai_generated_summary":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"relatedPosts":[],"_prc_fork_parent":0,"_prc_fork_status":"","_prc_active_fork":0,"datacite_doi":"","datacite_doi_citation":"","_prc_seo_qr_attachment_id":0,"spoken_article_player_enabled":true,"displayBylines":true,"footnotes":"","prc_watchers":[]},"categories":[225,159,28,146],"bylines":[836],"collection":[],"datasets":[],"_post_visibility":[],"formats":[467],"_fund_pool":[],"languages":[],"regions-countries":[515],"research-teams":[519],"workflow-status":[],"class_list":["post-13655","short-read","type-short-read","status-publish","hentry","category-intermarriage","category-more-racial-ethnic-groups","category-race-ethnicity","category-racial-intermarriage","bylines-wendy-wang","formats-short-read","regions-countries-united-states","research-teams-social-trends"],"label":"Short Read","post_parent":0,"word_count":353,"canonical_url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2015\/06\/12\/interracial-marriage-who-is-marrying-out\/","art_direction":{"A1":{"id":25242,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12.Interracial.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12.Interracial.png?w=312&h=317&crop=1","width":312,"height":317,"chartArt":false},"A2":{"id":25242,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12.Interracial.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12.Interracial.png?w=268&h=151&crop=1","width":268,"height":151,"chartArt":false},"A3":{"id":25242,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12.Interracial.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12.Interracial.png?w=194&h=110&crop=1","width":194,"height":110,"chartArt":false},"A4":{"id":25242,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12.Interracial.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12.Interracial.png?w=268&h=151&crop=1","width":268,"height":151,"chartArt":false},"XL":{"id":25242,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12.Interracial.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12.Interracial.png?w=312&h=386&crop=1","width":312,"height":386,"chartArt":false},"social":{"id":25242,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12.Interracial.png","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.12.Interracial.png?w=312&h=386&crop=1","width":312,"height":386,"chartArt":false}},"_embeds":[],"watchers":[],"table_of_contents":[],"datacite_doi":"","prc_seo_data":{"title":"Interracial marriage: Who is \u2018marrying out\u2019?","description":"Interracial marriages have increased steadily since 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in 16 states.","og_title":"Interracial marriage: Who is \u2018marrying out\u2019?","og_description":"Interracial marriages have increased steadily since 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all anti-miscegenation laws remaining in 16 states. 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