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Today, support for interracial marriage is near-universal. [1] Opposition to interracial marriage was frequently based on religious principles. The overwhelming majority of white Southern Democrat Christians saw racial segregation, including on matters of marriage, as something that was divinely instituted from God.
In contrast, in 2011, the vast majority of Americans approved of marriages between different races in general, while just 20 years earlier, in 1991, less than half approved. [100] It was only in 1994 when more than half of Americans approved of such marriages in general. [98]
The black–white marriages increased from 65,000 in 1970 to 403,000 in 2006, [27] and 558,000 in 2010, [28] according to Census Bureau figures. [29] In the United States, rates of interracial cohabitation are significantly higher than those of marriage. Although only 7 percent of married African American men have Caucasian American wives, 13% ...
The 1960 interracial marriage census showed 51,000 black-white couples. White males and black females being slightly more common (26,000) than black males and white females (25,000) The 1960 census also showed that Interracial marriage involving Asian and Native American was the most common.
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An ABC News/Washington Post poll, conducted from April 21, 2009, to April 24, 2009, found that, for the first time, a plurality of Americans supported same-sex marriage at 49% and that a majority of Americans supported the marriages of same-sex couples validly entered into in one state being recognized in all states at 53%. [15]
Image credits: AllYourShenanigans #5. Sounds like my cousin. She married a really decent seeming guy. When they got back from honeymoon, he presented her with a handwritten list of things she must do.
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