Intermarriage declined in the 1990s, because of immigration: “The past decade also ushered in unprecedented declines in intermarriage with whites and large increases in marriage between native- and foreign-born co-ethnics among Hispanics and Asian Americans.” (from the journal article). As the USA Today story says, “Recent minority immigrants are disproportionately less educated than the native-born, earn less, do not speak English well and tend to live in segregated neighborhoods ­ major factors that discourage marriage outside racial or ethnic groups, says Zhenchao Qian, sociology professor at Ohio State University and co-author of the report.”