Posted on 07/26/2013 10:25:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Continuing to represent one of the largest shifts of public opinion in Gallup history, 87% of Americans now favor marriage between blacks and whites, up from 4% in 1958.
These data are from Gallup's Minority Rights and Relations poll, conducted June 13-July 5. The poll surveyed 4,373 Americans, including 1,010 non-Hispanic blacks.
Approval of marriages between blacks and whites is up one percentage point from 2011, when this attitude was last measured. Approval has generally increased in a linear fashion from Gallup's first measure in 1958, reaching the majority threshold in 1997, and crossing the three-quarters line in 2004. Eleven percent of Americans today say they disapprove of black-white marriage, compared with 94% who disapproved in 1958.
Blacks' approval of black-white marriage (96%) is now nearly universal, while whites' approval is 12 percentage points lower, at 84%. Blacks' approval has consistently been higher than whites' over the decades, although attitudes among both racial groups have generally moved in a parallel manner since 1968 -- when Gallup first was able to report reliable estimates of each group's opinion. The gap between black approval and white approval in recent years has been smaller than it was prior to 1997.
Implications
Americans' attitudes about interracial marriage have changed dramatically over the past 55 years, moving from the point in the late 1950s when disapproval was well over 90%, to the point today when approval is approaching 90%. Census data indicate that black-white marriages in reality remain fairly rare -- although they have increased from 167,000 in 1980 to 558,000 in 2010, they still represent less than 1% of all married couples. The major shift in attitudes about such unions, however, is a telling indicator of the general shift in views of racial matters
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I call BS. Tons of people wouldn’t say the disapprove if they did.
We’re still racists because it isn’t 100%. White people just can’t catch a break!
LOL you have to wonder about someone who would even conduct a poll like this these days.
Those marriages are actually capable of producing children.
Wait a minute - heterosexuals are still allowed to get married? Who knew?
Rather selfish to not consider the likely internal confusion of any resulting children, such as exhibit #1: Obama
BTW, I disapprove of homo marriage because it perverts and destroys the meaning of the institution.
Question to think about -
Would any racial related problems that Obama experienced be more likely to be from white racism or from black antipathy towards anything “white”?
Divorce rates weren't nearly as high either!
And yet almost every show has some gay “couple” but it is almost still unheard of to see an interracial one.
They are trying to equate characteristics which you cannot control (skin color), with behavior.
If given the choice between approve or disapprove, then I would choose “approve”; the REAL question isn’t “what color is their skin?” but “are they of excellent character?”
The Jeffersons is the only one that comes to mind, but that was a black wife and white husband.
The fact that more than 10 percent of America still disapproves is kind of sad. Live and let live.
Just guessing, but they probably segregated “non-Hispanic blacks” from other blacks to make the racial disparity look greater than it actually is.
is this poll comming out now in order to have obama “pivot” away from his “blackness”?
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