Not every demographic in America marries at the same tempo, and there are a number of inter-ethnic penchants
that we see according to recent Census data. Of the more than 60 million married
couples in the United States, 96% of them include couples of the
same race. But the residual 4% are inter-racial
marriages that expose the many economic and societal disconnects in who ultimately weds.
For example, there are essentially the same number of White women married versus White men. But this of course does not imply they are all paired up with one another. We'll see below that a net hundreds of thousands of White men instead paired up Asian women (taking them off this niche market for Asian men), and an equally equipoising net of hundreds of thousands of White women were paired up with Black men (taking them off the market for Black women). The result, in America there are 6.6% fewer Black women married versus Black men and 10% fewer Asian men married versus Asian women!
Let’s pore into these differences a little further and see how we get the portional preferences for marriage that cross ethnicities (i.e., "marrying out"). In the United States 390k Black men married White women, but only 168 Black women married White men (see left-side chart below focused on the race of who a husband marries). And 529k White men married Asian women, while only 219k Asian men married White women (see right-side chart below focused on the race of who a husband marries). This also moderately explains why there is a variance between Black women and Asian women in economic net worth and likelihood of being in a steady marriage (and as seen in numerous Federal Reserve and government studies).
For example, there are essentially the same number of White women married versus White men. But this of course does not imply they are all paired up with one another. We'll see below that a net hundreds of thousands of White men instead paired up Asian women (taking them off this niche market for Asian men), and an equally equipoising net of hundreds of thousands of White women were paired up with Black men (taking them off the market for Black women). The result, in America there are 6.6% fewer Black women married versus Black men and 10% fewer Asian men married versus Asian women!
Let’s pore into these differences a little further and see how we get the portional preferences for marriage that cross ethnicities (i.e., "marrying out"). In the United States 390k Black men married White women, but only 168 Black women married White men (see left-side chart below focused on the race of who a husband marries). And 529k White men married Asian women, while only 219k Asian men married White women (see right-side chart below focused on the race of who a husband marries). This also moderately explains why there is a variance between Black women and Asian women in economic net worth and likelihood of being in a steady marriage (and as seen in numerous Federal Reserve and government studies).
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