The average American today, young or old, is 70 percent more likely than a generation ago to count a person of another race among his two or three best friends, according to an article in the current issue of American Sociological Review.
Minnesota has been a leader in such change for decades, dating back at least as far as the mid-20th century with the surge in the adoption of Korean children. By the year 2000, no large U.S. city anywhere other than on the intensely multiracial Pacific Coast had a higher share of multiracial children than Minneapolis.
"It's never, ever, once been an issue for us," declared Tony Klaers of Minneapolis.
Klaers, who is white, has an extended family that includes two kids from a black-white marriage as well as adoptees from Korea and Vietnam.
"We've had strange looks from others; but in my family it's no big deal."
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