The Rise of Multiracial and Multiethnic Babies in the U.S.
Pew’s generational baseline: by 2015, one in seven infants born in the United States was multiracial or multiethnic, nearly triple the share in 1980. The driver moves in parallel, with intermarriage growing from 7% of newlyweds in 1980 to 17% by 2015. Draw the arc back and it begins at Loving v. Virginia in 1967, the Supreme Court case that struck down bans on interracial marriage. This is not a trend arriving; it is a half-century already underway, and our families are its census. A natural read every June 12, which is Loving Day.