{"id":61501,"date":"2021-09-14T20:26:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61501"},"modified":"2021-09-19T02:55:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T02:55:30","slug":"u-s-approval-of-interracial-marriage-at-new-high-of-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61501","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Approval of Interracial Marriage at New High of 94%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/354638\/approval-interracial-marriage-new-high.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>U.S. Approval of Interracial Marriage at New High of 94%<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gallup<\/a><br \/>\n2021-09-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinkmccarthy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Justin McCarthy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/354638\/approval-interracial-marriage-new-high.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/content.gallup.com\/origin\/gallupinc\/GallupSpaces\/Production\/Cms\/POLL\/n0djfxsc1eqsnaoow6ikbg.png\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Approval was at just 4% in 1958, when Gallup first polled on the question<\/li>\n<li>The racial gap in approval of interracial marriage has nearly closed<\/li>\n<li>Age and regional gaps in approval have also shrunk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/a> &#8212; Ninety-four percent of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">U.S.<\/a> adults now approve of marriages between Black people and White people, up from <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/163697\/approve-marriage-blacks-whites.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">87% in the prior reading from 2013<\/a>. The current figure marks a new high in Gallup&#8217;s trend, which spans more than six decades. Just 4% approved when Gallup first asked the question in 1958.<\/p>\n<p>The latest figure is from a Gallup poll conducted July 6-21. Shifts in the 63-year-old trend represent one of the largest transformations in public opinion in Gallup&#8217;s history &#8212; beginning at a time when interracial marriage was nearly universally opposed and continuing to its nearly universal approval today.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Supreme Court<\/a> legalized interracial marriage nationwide in the 1967 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Loving v. Virginia<\/em><\/a> case. A year after that decision, Gallup found support for the practice increasing, but still only a small minority of 20% approved.<\/p>\n<p>Approval of interracial marriage continued to grow in the U.S. in periodic readings Gallup took over the following decades, finally reaching majority level in 1997, when support jumped from 48% to 64%. Support has increased in subsequent measures, surpassing 70% in 2003, 80% in 2011 and 90% in the current reading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/354638\/approval-interracial-marriage-new-high.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety-four percent of U.S. adults now approve of marriages between Black people and White people, up from 87% in the prior reading from 2013. The current figure marks a new high in Gallup&#8217;s trend, which spans more than six decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,23674,20],"tags":[7546,31885],"class_list":["post-61501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-gallup","tag-justin-mccarthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61501","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=61501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61529,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61501\/revisions\/61529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}