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This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Among all newlyweds, native-born Hispanics and Asians were far more likely to intermarry than foreign-born Hispanics and Asians: 36.2% of native-born Hispanics (both men and women) out-married compared to 14.2% of foreign-born Hispanics; 32% of native-born Asian men out-married compared to 11% of foreign-born Asian men; 43% of native-born Asian women out-married compared to 34% of foreign-born Asian women. [15], Several studies have found that a factor which significantly affects an individual's choices with regards to marriage is socio-economic status ("SES")the measure of a person's income, education, social class, profession, etc. And on June 12, 1967, the couple won. There became a balance between racial prestige and socioeconomic prestige in intermarriages. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your devices and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. In 1960 interracial marriage was forbidden by law in 31 U.S. states. Among all new marriages in 2010, 22% in the West were interracial or interethnic, compared with 14% in the South, 13% in the Northeast and 11% in the Midwest. College Student Journal, 34. Pew Research Social & Demographic Trends: "The Rise of Intermarriage - Rates, Characteristics Vary by Race and Gender" by Wendy Wang, "America's Racial and Ethnic Divides: Interracial Marriages Eroding Barriers", https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-im2X0hbpv8C&pg=PA180&dq, http://academic.udayton.edu/race/01race/aspi02.htm, "Indian-American Scholar Susan Koshy Probes Interracial Sex", "Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965 - Chapter 9: Home Life", The Library, University of California, Berkeley, "Statutory Prohibitions against Interracial Marriage", "Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1982-83", "Asian and Native Intermarriage in the US", "Census 2000 PHC-T-19.