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