Black-White Kids Surge in South Where Mixed Unions Once Banned
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The ranks of multiracial Americans grew fastest in the states that most recently had laws on the books outlawing interracial marriage, the U.S. Census Bureau said yesterday.
Nine of the 10 states where the percentage of multiracial white Americans climbed the most were in the South, where interracial marriages were banned before a 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision declared a Virginia prohibition unconstitutional.