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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Fascinating changing times: More Young Americans Identify as Mixed Race

Excerpt from a VERY long article on NYTimes:

"...One in seven new marriages is between spouses of different races or ethnicities, according to data from 2008 and 2009 that was analyzed by the Pew Research Center. Multiracial and multiethnic Americans (usually grouped together as “mixed race”) are one of the country’s fastest-growing demographic groups. And experts expect the racial results of the 2010 census, which will start to be released next month, to show the trend continuing or accelerating...."

Posted via email from Siobhan O'Flynn's 1001 Tales

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