We have come a long way in the number of intermarriages and in our acceptance of them.

Intermarried couples generally feel optimistic about the future of intermarriage.

Challenges still arise and these couples often carefully select where they live and with whom they socialize.

As we turn the page on our first 250 years as a country, it is remarkable how far we have come in terms of intermarriage. Marriage between Black people and white people was banned in many colonies (later states) as well as between other races. It was only 59 years ago, in the 1967 Loving Supreme Court Decision, that intermarriage was finally legalized nationally at a time when many southern states still banned it. Today, one in ten marriages is interracial or interethnic (between Hispanic/Latinos and non-Hispanic/Latinos). Asian Americans and........

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