Category: Interracial Marriage

Is the Asian American sex difference in outmarriage due to adoption of girls from East Asia?

I was revisiting the statistics on intermarriage rates of various Asian American ethnicities on the Asian Nation website drawn from the 2010 census. And something weird jumped out at me: the absolute number of 1.5 and 2nd generation “Asian American” women of some ethnicities is way higher than for others. For Korean Americans, it’s almost…

May 3, 2019
Can 46% of Mississippi Republicans favor banning interracial marriage?

That’s the number. At least according to Public Policy Polling. That seems rather high. So I decided to go back and look at the RACMAR variable in the General Social Survey. Here’s the question: Do you think there should be laws against mar…

April 7, 2011
Support for bans on interracial marriage by sex

A quick follow-up to my previous post which points to the data that women tend to be more race-conscious in dating than men. There’s a variable in the GSS which asks if you support a ban on interracial marriage, RACMAR. Here’s the question itself: Do you think there should be laws against marriages between (Negroes/Blacks/African-Americans)…

October 16, 2010