Interracial marriage is way up. What – and who – is fueling it?
In 2008, nearly 1 in 7 marriages was interracial or interethnic, more than double the rate of the 1980s, according to a Pew report. Immigrants from Latin America and Asia are driving the trend, along with broad acceptance of interracial marriage.
White-Hispanic couplings account for the greatest proportion of intermarriages, at 41 percent. White-Asian couples make up 15 percent and white-black, 11 percent. But some groups are more likely than others to marry outside their race: Black men (22 percent) and Asian women (40 percent) had the highest rates of intermarriage.
