Multiracial Marriage on the Rise |
Multiracial Marriage on the Rise
The Brookings Institution
The Avenue: Rethinking Metropoliitian America
2014-12-18
William H. Frey, Senior Fellow
Metropolitan Policy Program
One consequence of America’s diversity explosion is a rise in multiracial marriages. In 1960, before immigration levels to the United States started to rise, multiracial marriages constituted only 0.4 percent of all U.S. marriages. That figure increased to 8.4 percent in 2010 and for recent newlyweds, 15 percent.
Not surprisingly the prevalence of out-marriage is high for new minorities, Hispanics and Asians, in light of the large pool of potential partners who are of different origins. More than four in ten new marriages of each group marry someone of a different race—with whites the most likely partners…
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