Trends in Attitudes of Whites, Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics toward Intermarriage in the Twenty-First Century

No study has simultaneously compared attitudes of whites, blacks, Asians, and Hispanics toward intermarriage over time. This offers a comparative analysis the changes in with different racial or ethnic groups twenty-first century, using nationally representative samples from General Social Surveys 2000–2018. Our trend analyses reveal that whites’ support for minorities generally increased, albeit at relatively lower level; blacks’ Hispanics, whites been quite stable high Asians’ Hispanics’ other shown an upswing some minor fluctuations, but their gone opposite direction oscillations. The results our generalized linear ordinal logistic regression models show either including excluding control variables, have become more supportive minorities, displayed undulated pattern, diverse patterns depending on group to intermarry with. findings indicate general narrowing intergroup social distances as well increases distance between certain United States century.