Title: Interracial marriage in the United States - Wikipedia
Headings: Interracial marriage in the United States
Interracial marriage in the United States
Contents
Historical background
Academic researches
Cultural aspects
Socio-economic aspects
Marital stability
Census Bureau statistics
2008 Pew Research Center Report
2010 Pew Research Center Report
Interracial marriage by pairing
Asian and White
Black and White
Native American and Asian
Asian and Black
Native American and White
Native American and Black
Public opinion
Relevant fields
Marriage squeeze
Religion and interracial marriage
Immigrants and interracial marriage
Interracial marriage versus cohabitation
See also
References

Content: Research led by Barnett, Burma, and Monahan in 1963 and 1971 showed people who marry outside of their race are usually older and are more likely to live in an urban setting. Social enterprise research conducted on behalf of the Columbia Business School (2005–2007) showed that regional differences within the United States in how interracial relationships are perceived have persisted: Daters of both sexes from south of the Mason–Dixon line were found to have much stronger same-race preferences than northern daters did. The study also observed a clear gender divide in racial preference with regards to marriage: Women of all the races which were studied revealed a strong preference for men of their own race for marriage, with the caveat that East Asian women only discriminated against Black and Hispanic men, and not against White men. A woman's race was found to have no effect on the men's choices. Socio-economic aspects
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. For example, a study by the Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Newcastle University confirmed that women show a tendency to marry up in socio-economic status; this reduces the probability of marriage of low SES men. Research at the universities of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Texas A&M addressing the topic of socio-economic status, among other factors, showed that none of the socio-economic status variables appeared to be positively related to outmarriage within the Asian American community, and found lower-socioeconomically stable Asians sometimes utilized outmarriage to whites as a means to advance social status.