31. After more than 70 years of racial parity black marriage rates began to fall behind whites. 32. The marriage rate in America was 8.3 per 1, 000 people in 1998, the lowest since 1958. 33. The National Marriage Project found that over the last 40 years, marriage rates have dropped 43 percent. 34. Populations that are more mobile and those that have lower marriage rates tend to have lower turnout. 35. And the marriage rate just kept falling. 36. Since 1960, America's marriage rate has fallen 41 percent and divorces have tripled to 1, 150, 000. 37. Indeed, the interracial marriage rate for black women is climbing faster than the rate for black men. 38. Marriage rates also fell and the proportion of children born out of wedlock doubled to 22 percent.39. What's more, the white-black marriage rate lags significantly behind rates of white intermarriage with other, nonblack races. 40. While research has shown that marriage rates have dropped for African Americans, the birth rate has not.
