{"id":57173,"date":"2018-12-29T02:14:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T02:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57173"},"modified":"2018-12-29T20:04:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T20:04:06","slug":"las-vegas-has-second-highest-rate-of-interracial-marriage-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57173","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas has second-highest rate of interracial marriage in US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Las Vegas has second-highest rate of interracial marriage in US<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/a>
\n2018-12-25<\/p>\n

Michael Scott Davidson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Wife<\/a>
\nWife and husband Christie Faux, 63, left, and Kurt Faux, 61, sit together on a couch in their home in Henderson<\/a>, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018. Caroline Brehman\/Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

She was raised in Silicon Valley<\/a>, the black daughter of two well-paid IBM employees. He was a white child who lived with his mother and grandmother in Las Vegas<\/a> \u2014 some days not having enough money to eat \u2014 before moving back to a rural West Virginia<\/a> county to finish high school.<\/p>\n

Despite such different backgrounds, Erica Kyles and Kevin Pauley felt an immediate connection when a mutual friend introduced them at a Henderson<\/a> gym in 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went on a date, and that was it,\u201d said Erica, 39, referring to the couple\u2019s marriage at a Las Vegas Strip<\/a> resort in March 2010. \u201cWe were really inseparable ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n

Erica and Kevin, now living in a southwest Las Vegas Valley<\/a> suburb, are far from alone in their decision to wed. The Las Vegas metropolitan area has the second-highest rate of interracial marriage among U.S. metro areas, according to Pew Research Center<\/a> findings published last year.<\/p>\n

Almost 1 in 3 newlyweds here have a spouse of a different race or ethnicity, according to the analysis of U.S. Census Bureau<\/a> data from 2011 through 2015. Only the Honolulu<\/a> metro area ranked higher.<\/p>\n

\u201cGenerally, intermarriage rates tend to be higher in places with more racial and ethnic diversity. Both Honolulu and Las Vegas would fall into that category,\u201d Pew senior researcher Gretchen Livingston<\/a> said. \u201cThe pool of potential spouses is just much more diverse.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost 1 in 3 newlyweds here have a spouse of a different race or ethnicity, according to the analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data from 2011 through 2015. Only the Honolulu metro area ranked higher.<\/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":[29185,29187,27006,29188,29186,22398,19685,29184,5718,3122,29183,5367,24348],"class_list":["post-57173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-christie-faux","tag-erica-kyles","tag-gretchen-livingston","tag-kevin-pauley","tag-kurt-faux","tag-las-vegas","tag-las-vegas-review-journal","tag-michael-scott-davidson","tag-nevada","tag-pew-research-center","tag-robert-lang","tag-united-states-census-bureau","tag-us-census-bureau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57173","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=57173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57180,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57173\/revisions\/57180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}