http://www.prb.org/Articles/2005/USAttitudesTowardInterracialDatingAreLiberalizing.aspx U.S. Attitudes Toward Interracial Dating Are Liberalizing by Alison Stein Wellner (June 2005) As the United States population becomes ever more diverse, are more people dating across race lines? The question isn't simply a matter of whom you'll be going out with on Saturday night. Since interracial dating (or "interdating") and interracial marriage were outlawed or ostracized for so long in U.S. history, many sociologists see the incidence of these relationships as a key indicator of the state of U.S. race relations. Indeed, despite its increasing depiction in the media, interracial romance is still America's "last taboo," according to Tom Smith, director of the General Social Survey at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. "Many people who are honestly accepting of equal treatment across ...