“Having been raised in and lived in the South all my life, you see many more mixed race couples in the south than you’ll ever see in the north.”
Not necessarily: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/top-20-states-interracial-dating-infographic_n_1959131.html
http://www.interracialdatingfree.com/top-10-interracial-dating-states-in-the-us/
http://www.beyondblackwhite.com/states-highest-interracial-marriages/
https://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/marriage/data/census/PAA_2013_3713.pdf Same results in more accessible form: http://www.businessinsider.com/geography-of-interracial-marriage-2014-2
I don’t count ‘Latino’ or ‘Hispanic’ as a separate race. ..................