A recent article from Gallup based on their Minority Rights and Relations poll, conducted June 13-July 5
which surveyed 4,373 Americans, including 1,010 non-Hispanic Blacks reports one of the largest shifts of public opinion in Gallup
history, 87% of Americans now favor marriage between Blacks and Whites, up from
4% in 1958. The report explained its findings:
Approval of marriages between Blacks and Whites is up one
percentage point from 2011, when this attitude was last measured. Approval has
generally increased in a linear fashion from Gallup's first measure in 1958,
reaching the majority threshold in 1997, and crossing the three-quarters line
in 2004. Eleven percent of Americans today say they disapprove of Black-White
marriage, compared with 94% who disapproved in 1958.
Blacks' approval of Black-White
marriage (96%) is now nearly universal, while Whites' approval is 12 percentage
points lower, at 84%. Blacks' approval has consistently been higher than Whites'
over the decades, although attitudes among both racial groups have generally
moved in a parallel manner since 1968, when Gallup was first able to report
reliable estimates of each group's opinion. The gap between Black approval and White
approval in recent years has been smaller than it was prior to 1997.
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