50 Years After Landmark Court Case, Only 28% Of Republicans Support Interracial Marriage
Richard P. Loving and his wife, Mildred, pose in this Jan. 26, 1965, file photograph. Residents of Caroline County, Virginia,, the couple was convicted under the state’s law that banned mixed marriages. (AP Photo)
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Loving v. Virginia – which struck down laws criminalizing intermarriage – new U.S. Census Bureau data shows 17 percent of newlyweds in the United States have a spouse of a different race or ethnicity.
