I graduated in 1980.
Race relations were far better than outside of the great lakes states and the coasts.
There were more interracial marriages than there are now, because people of my generation didn’t focus on race.
Now there are probably less people who actually get married instead of just sleeping around than the portion of marriages which were interracial when I was in my twenties.
Me though?
I don’t have a television. All this Hallmark stuff doesn’t affect me because I was through with television after the rural purge...when Green Acres and Petticoat Junction were replaced with All In The Family, The Jeffersons, and endless political round tables.
“There were more interracial marriages than there are now, because people of my generation didn’t focus on race.”
That’s demonstrably false.
“Rates of intermarriages among newlyweds in the U.S. more than doubled between 1980 (6.7%) and 2008 (14.6%). However, different groups experienced different trends. Rates more than doubled among whites and nearly tripled among blacks. But for both Hispanics and Asians, rates were nearly identical in 2008 and 1980.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_United_States#2008_Pew_Research_Center_Report