NEW YORK, (Reuters Life!) – Nearly 15 percent of all new marriages in the United States, twice the number from 1980, are between partners of different races or ethnicity, according to a new report.
The study by the Pew Research Institute is based on its own findings and U.S. census data for 2008. It shows a doubling of the rate of interracial marriages for whites and a tripling for blacks.
“A record 14.6 percent of all new marriages in the United States in 2008 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another,” according to the report.
“This includes marriages between a Hispanic and non-Hispanic as well as marriages between spouses of different races — be they white, black, Asian, American Indian or those who identify as being of multiple races or ‘some other’ race.”
