Interracia Marriage gaining more ACCEPTANCE peepJat labe The melting pot ? metaphor be- est inter-marriage rates, while Ameti- $00,000 2 million. _Allate-2003 Gallup survey found compared to 5 percent who have leeWASHINGTON, DC (PS) Th came even more popular years a can Indians, Heeaiane,and multiple The ssudy noted that changes i that 86 percent of blacks, 79 percent than a high hool education.| lages i isin executives on Madi 3 arly, inter-racial coupleshen adver race | have. the highest. Asians tacial attitudes over the last 30 of Hispanics, and 66 percent of whites Simila 5m son Avenue remade the image of .and people fall in-between. clearly played a major role ie te said they would accept their child or are T more likely to live in populous* oBetty Crocker, ? a brand T name of Black men are more likely to in- _ mushrooming of inter-racial mar- indchild marrying someone of a areas where the population is raciallymy . General Mills, Inc., according to. termarry than Black women, while riages, which were i in most states different race. As recently as 1990, diverse, in part because opportuni-Rochelle Stanfield, writing in The Asian women are more likely to in- at the end of the 19th century. As re- two out of every three whites said they ties for people to meet at work or._ National Journal. termarry than Asian men. Men and _cently.as 1945, the legislature of Cali- would oppose any relative marrying a school T.are greater. ee " oBetty's portrait is now in its women from other racial groups, on fornia which, next to Hawaii, has be- black person... oo The western U.S., with its popu-eighth incarnation since the first com-- the other hand, are equally likely to come the country Ts most multi-racial Yet another 2003 poll found that lation centers and high racial diver-posite oo in 1936-with _intermarry. state, emai law that banned mar- 77 percent of respondents had no sity, had twice the rtion of in-rpo. cn: ene and blue eyes, ? she wrote in About one-fourth of Hispanic een whites and N » objection to blacks and whites dat- ter-racial couples (1 ) percent) as other2000. oHer new look is brown-cyed couples are inter-Hispanic, a rate that Mongolisns (which inteaded ingeach other, © _ Major regions (5 percent), according-*tand dark-haired. She has a duskier has been fairly stable since 1980. Chinese and Ja ), and Malays. - " Inter-marriage rates, wong to the report. Hawaii, Alaska, Cali-| complexion than her seven. predeces- Younger and better-educated . ; oAfter World War II, however, the to the report tend to T increase wit fornia, Nevada, and Oklahoma led the» sors, with features representing an people in the U.S. are more likely to law began. to change as U.S, setvice- education for most groups. Nine per- rest of the SHAS_amalgam of white, Hispanic, India, intermarry than older and less-edu- men married Japanese women, and nt~ oAftican-and Asian ancestry. In fact, a " cated citizens,. as: the civil rights; movement began RTE Ecomputer created Betty in the mid- U.S.-born Asians and Hispanics ing anti-mi2 , 7 anti-miscegenation laws in o1990s oby blending photos of 75 di- = i ova wel blacks Coan In 1367, che U.S Supreme a , i asverse women. ? more likely to intermarry than foreign- ¢ urt ruled that all such lawswere |" - pun inie a: oo For purposes of the new PRB born Asians and Hispanics and US. unconstiutonel although ittookAl-°| PAYS ALUMP SUM OF CASH FOR: .Rhonda iid tous Ms Oe, ig Study, pple asin aaron as - Porn whites we cd 2000. eh bama weed 2000 to repeal its pes. OWNER-FINANCED MORTGASGAGE,oie ile whee of inter. et-tacial - that is, between peopic " Between 1970 and 2000, the According to a recent Gallu Ai 4 ER NTS ' Sphi pcb Not of thos from different racial groups, includ- number of children living in inter-ra- study, the pabcentage of whites who - PERSONAL INJURY SETTLEME ANNUITIES,pe: is type of marriage White (75 percent of the total popu- cial families increased nearly fourfold favored laws against marriages be- ~ AND LOTTERY WINNINGS40 ape a, OPE fm eerriege lation), black (12 percent), Asian and - from 900,000 to 3 million, while tween blacks and whites has declinedmany states, includin . North Caro. Pacific Islander (4 percent), Ameri- the number in inter-Hispanic fami- from 35 percent in the 1970s to 10 | |lina. Photolcurtis wilon can Indian (1 percent), osome other lies increased nearly three-fold, from Percent in the early 2000s. - . |! 3 | _ " t} Antonio Neilsonrace ? (almost all Hispanics) (6 per- . : |_ City Barber Shop | , Private Note InvestorBOURS OF OPERATION |/ Hrs. Voicemail: 919-918-0236Tuesday - Thursday | _www.nelsonfundingcompany.com8 . cent), or multiple race (2 percent) - orcording to a new report which con- _ inter-Hi ic - which applied to in- :Cludes that U.S. attitudes towards in- dividuals of Hispanic origin who mar-ter-racial dating and marriage have tied a non-Hispanic partner.undergone a osea change ? over the past Fhose who identified themselvesgeneration. _ as Hispanics, who could also choose "wing in to increased im- any race, constituted a total of 13 per-migration and higher education lev- cent of the total. (Not all Hispanicsels, the. percentage of inter-racial _ chose the some other race SOR] Cat-couples grew ftom under 1 percent in egory.)2000 to more than 5 percent of the Aside from the more than five-estimated 57 million couples recorded " fold increase in the percentage of in-in the aged -sern soning to the rer-racial married couples key find- -Report by the Washington- Popu- ings of the report included: " -lation Reference Bureau (PRB). © The ypinal inter-racial couple is Tonia Freeman enna Freeman: apex ager ated into an increase a eee ae with a ay a Barber/Owner Managers .m roughly 300,000 inter-racial * spouse, while inter-marriage en | , . Peg.couples in 1970 to 1.5 million in 1990 two people from minority racial 600 &. Pitt St. Greenville, NC 27834to more than 3 million in 2000, ac- groups is relatiyely infrequent. (252) 7§2-0992cording to the 36- rt, oNew ites and Blacks have the low-era New prriliee U'S. Ra-cial an | Hispanic Inter-marri e. ? VERNMENT; That trend, which show ~ sign GET INVOLVED IN CITY GOof slackening, suggests that the United : oHej : licati .States is shifting cicreaiieiy Gonil The City of Sse is accepting applications from volunteers to serve on the following boards and osalad bowl ? - where racial groupsmaintain their separate identities and Affordable Housing Loan Committee , Human Relations Councilresist marrying outside their groups - Board of Adjustment Pitt-Greenville Airport Authorityto'an " " more op Pot, here Citizens Advisory Commission on Authors Convention & Visitorsincluding marriage, with people of a Cable Television Planning & Zoning Commissiondifference race, Community Appearance Commission _. 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