THIS CHART: What Racial Progress In America Looks Like

Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

The number of multiracial babies jumped by ten-fold over the last four decades, according to data in a new report from the Pew Research Center. The findings were derived from Census Bureau data and were contained in the new report released Thursday titled Multiracial in America. In 1970, only 1 percent of children under the age of 1 were multiracial. By 2013, 10 percent were.

Pew attributed this growth to the rise in mixed-race couples and said that Census Bureau projections have the multiracial population on track to triple by 2060. The Pew report finds more generally that the demographic of multiracial Americans is growing three times more quickly than the general population.

Latest The Chart

Notable Replies

  1. For more and more individuals (especially the young), the word “mixed” does NOT mean confused…

  2. Avatar for bwn bwn says:

    It’s a beautiful thing!

  3. I expect there will eventually be a sort of tipping point where it accelerates, as the proportion of whites declines below 50%. Right now people are still fairly segregated. In Hawaii, where no group is a majority, virtually everyone I know who got together here is in an interracial marriage/LTR.

Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com

Participants

Avatar for system1 Avatar for bwn Avatar for midnight_rambler Avatar for emilianoelmexicano

Continue Discussion
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Deputy Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: