In anticipation of Loving Day this coming weekend, here's a chart showing the growth of interracial marriage over the last few decades.
Hispanic/white couples account for nearly 41 percent of all interracial marriages. Matt Yglesias makes an interesting point:
I think the upshot of this is that the country will be “whiter” in 2050 than naive demographic projections suggest and that will largely be because a very substantial portion of the descendants of today’s Hispanics and Asians will be considered white.
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And, oddly enough, that trend would start to pull down the percentage of marriages we consider interracial right? At any rate, to the extent that this chart reflects a growing acceptance of getting married to whomever you love regardless of race, it's certainly a very nice thing to see.
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