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Interracial romance is America's last taboo. However, it might slowly be fading. The percentage of all interracially married couples in the United States nearly doubled from 2.9 percent to 5.4 percent between 1990 and 2000, to more than 3 million.
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The boundaries were still distinct in 1967, a year when the Sidney Poitier film “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” — a comedy built around parents’ acceptance of an interracial couple — was considered groundbreaking. The Supreme Court ruled that Virginia could not criminalize the marriage that Richard Loving, a white, and his black wife, Mildred, entered into nine years earlier in Washington, D.C.
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The interracial/interethnic marriage rate for African-American men is nine percent and for African-American women four percent. For non-Hispanic whites, it's between three and four percent for both sexes. In 2000, there were 41.3 million married couples comprised of two non-Hispanic whites, versus only 0.5 million consisting of a non-Hispanic white person and an Asian person - and only 0.29 million made up of non-Hispanic whites and blacks. (The Census Bureau's data tables can be downloaded here.)
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One theory had been that the rise of cohabitation was the cause of the decline, and that fewer interracial couples were marrying because they were more likely to be living together outside of marriage. However, this study found that is not the case, Qian said.
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