ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, March 26, 1997 TAG: 9703260075
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-7 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: DETROIT
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Veterans of the military are more likely to marry outside their racial group, the study showed.
More Americans are marrying outside of their racial groups, Census data shows.
University of Michigan researchers found that 8 percent of black men ages 25 to 34 in 1990 were married to someone of another race, compared with fewer than 2 percent in the 1940s and '50s.
Among white men in the same category, about 4 percent were married to someone of another race, compared with about 1 percent in the '40s and '50s.
The percentage of black women ages 25 to 34 married to someone of another race was 4 percent; it was about 1 percent in the '40s and '50s. Among white women in the same age category, 3 percent were married to someone of another race, compared with fewer than 1 percent in the earlier decades.
The study analyzed Census data on marriages between whites, blacks, Native Americans and native-born Asians and Hispanics.
White men who served in the military were three times as likely to marry black women as white men who never served, the study said. White women who served were seven times more likely to marry outside their racial group as those who never served.
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