{"id":42204,"date":"2015-08-12T21:55:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T21:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42204"},"modified":"2015-08-12T21:55:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T21:55:48","slug":"black-white-mixed-race-identity-rises-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42204","title":{"rendered":"Black-white mixed race identity rises in the South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/the-avenue\/posts\/2015\/08\/12-mixed-race-identity-in-the-south-frey\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Black-white mixed race identity rises in the South<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\" target=\"_blank\">The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.<\/a><br \/>\n2015-08-12<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/experts\/freyw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>William H. Frey<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Fellow<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/the-avenue\/posts\/2015\/08\/12-mixed-race-identity-in-the-south-frey\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/~\/media\/Research\/Images\/M\/MA-ME\/map-10-2-blog.jpg?h=644&amp;w=100%&amp;la=en\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As shown in my book, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=38424\" target=\"_blank\">Diversity Explosion<\/a>,\u201d the growth of black-white marriages in the United States is unmistakable, as are the gains in the population that identifies itself as \u201cwhite and black,\u201d particularly among the very young. As further evidence that the white-black divide is eroding, it is useful to look at the region most historically resistant to change: the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">South<\/a>. Because of past prejudices and customs, the white-black population, as a percentage of all blacks, is still considerably lower in Southern states than in other parts of the country (see map). In a slew of states leading from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maryland\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texas\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a>, \u201cwhite and black\u201d populations represent less than 5 percent of the black-only populations. In <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mississippi\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana<\/a>, \u201cwhite and black\u201d populations constitute only 1 percent. These figures compare with more than 20 percent of \u201cwhite and black\u201d persons in a handful of states with sparse black populations in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">West<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Plains\" target=\"_blank\">Great Plains<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_England\" target=\"_blank\">New England<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blogs\/the-avenue\/posts\/2015\/08\/12-mixed-race-identity-in-the-south-frey\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black-white mixed race identity rises in the South The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 2015-08-12 William H. Frey, Senior Fellow As shown in my book, \u201cDiversity Explosion,\u201d the growth of black-white marriages in the United States is unmistakable, as are the gains in the population that identifies itself as \u201cwhite and black,\u201d particularly among the very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,20],"tags":[5384,18826,18825,974,973],"class_list":["post-42204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-bill-frey","tag-brookings-institution","tag-the-brookings-institution","tag-william-frey","tag-william-h-frey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42205,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42204\/revisions\/42205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}