Thursday, February 16, 2012

Study: Interracial marriage, acceptance growing

(CNN) -- Forty-five years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a ban on interracial marriage, the rate of marriage across racial and ethnic lines in the United States is on the rise, according to a new study released Thursday.
 
And while such "intermarriages" continue to grow, so too does public acceptance of such unions, according to the study by the Pew Research Center's Social and Demographic Trends project.


MORE: http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/16/us/interracial-marriage/index.html?hpt=hp_t1