Charts: USA: Liberals at work: U.S. Approval of Interracial Marriage at New High of 94%

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[Liberals are changing the minds of Americans. Liberals and their Communist and Liberal allies are changing your views. This is very bad. Jan]

• Approval was at just 4% in 1958, when Gallup first polled on the question
• The racial gap in approval of interracial marriage has nearly closed
• Age and regional gaps in approval have also shrunk

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ninety-four percent of U.S. adults now approve of marriages between Person people and people, up from 87% in the prior reading from 2013. The current figure marks a new high in Gallup’s trend, which spans more than six decades. Just 4% approved when Gallup first asked the question in 1958.

The latest figure is from a Gallup poll conducted July 6-21. Shifts in the 63-year-old trend represent one of the largest transformations in public opinion in Gallup’s history — beginning at a time when interracial marriage was nearly universally opposed and continuing to its nearly universal approval today.

The U.S. Supreme Court legalized interracial marriage nationwide in the 1967 Loving v. Virginia case. A year after that decision, Gallup found support for the practice increasing, but still only a small minority of 20% approved.

Approval of interracial marriage continued to grow in the U.S. in periodic readings Gallup took over the following decades, finally reaching majority level in 1997, when support jumped from 48% to 64%. Support has increased in subsequent measures, surpassing 70% in 2003, 80% in 2011 and 90% in the current reading.

White, Non- Americans Now Similarly Approve of Interracial Marriage

Non- Americans have been consistently more approving of interracial marriages than Americans — but that gap has narrowed over time and, in the latest reading, has nearly closed.

Previous measures from 1968 to 2013 found double-digit gaps in approval between and Non- adults. Today, the three percentage points that separate approval among (93%) and Non- adults (96%) is within the poll’s margin of error.

Recent growth at the national level has been driven by increasing approval among Americans, as approval among Non- Americans has been unchanged over the past decade.

Majorities of non- adults since 1968 have approved of interracial marriage. It was not until 1997 that a majority of adults held that opinion.

Generational Differences in Views on Interracial Marriage Shrink

Younger adults in the U.S. have consistently been more likely than their older peers to approve of marriages between Person people and people. But these generational differences have shrunk, as older adults are now nearly as supportive of interracial marriages as younger adults are.

But Americans in all age groups today are more supportive of Person- marriages than adults in the same age group were in the past, particularly among older adults. In 1991, 27% of U.S. adults aged 50 and older approved of interracial marriages, compared with 91% today.

Regional Differences in Views on Interracial Marriage Now Gone

In previous decades, Americans living in the East, Midwest and West were generally more approving of marriages between Person people and people than those living in the South.

At this point in the trend, however, approval of interracial marriage is nearly universal across all regions, almost closing the regional gaps that existed in earlier parts of the trend.

Bottom Line

Americans are now nearly unanimous in their approval of marriages between Person people and people. The shifts over time document changes in U.S. social mores as well as differing attitudes between current and past generations of Americans.

A similar gradual change can be seen in willingness to vote for a Person presidential candidate, a trend that spans just as much time as Gallup’s trend on interracial marriage. While voting for a Person candidate was unpopular in the 1950s, nearly all Americans say they would be willing to do so today. Americans’ ideas about marriage, too, have changed. Solid majorities now support same-sex marriage, and larger majorities than in the past view divorce as morally acceptable.

At the same time, Americans have become less likely to say that civil rights for Person Americans have improved, and they have recently become more likely to say that new civil rights laws are needed to reduce discrimination against Person people.

Opposition to interracial marriage still exists, but it is quite small. Future measures will indicate whether 94% is the ceiling for approval, or if there is still room for growth in acceptance.

 
Source: https://news.gallup.com/poll/354638/approval-interracial-marriage-new-high.aspx