{"id":15537,"date":"2013-08-26T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T12:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/can-we-all-get-along-for-most-the-answer-is-yes\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:30:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:30:07","slug":"can-we-all-get-along-for-most-the-answer-is-yes","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2013\/08\/26\/can-we-all-get-along-for-most-the-answer-is-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we all get along? For most, the answer is yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2013\/08\/22\/kings-dream-remains-an-elusive-goal-many-americans-see-racial-disparities\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/08\/SDT-racial-relations-08-2013-01-05.png\" width=\"304\" height=\"787\"><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Race relations in the United States are a work in progress, as always, but most blacks, whites and Hispanics say they get along reasonably well with each other.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Pew Research Center&#8217;s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2013\/08\/22\/kings-dream-remains-an-elusive-goal-many-americans-see-racial-disparities\/\">report on race in America<\/a>, 81% of whites and 73% of blacks say those two groups get along &#8220;very&#8221; or &#8220;pretty&#8221; well. When the same question was asked six years ago, 77% of whites and 69% of blacks said their groups generally got along well together.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly, about the same share of whites (77%) and Hispanics (74%) said their groups got along well &#8212; as they did six years ago, when the figures were 70% and 71%, respectively.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there remain several areas where perceptions about intergroup relations differ significantly. And in some instances, respondents from one group say they simply don&#8217;t know enough about one or both of the other groups to express an opinion.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For instance, whites&#8217; view of black-white relations is not only significantly more positive than that of blacks but of Hispanics as well. (Only 60% of Hispanics said blacks and whites generally get along well, versus 36% who said they didn&#8217;t). While\u00a078% of African-Americans say blacks and Hispanics get along well, only\u00a061% of Hispanics agreed. 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