The Wall Street Journal includes a thought-provoking column this morning that suggests there would be less of a shortage of black women marrying black men, if more black women were open to marrying white men.

     The article is well worth the read, especially the discussion of some of the reasons black women do not want to marry white men.

[The article from the about to be released book ""Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone" by Ralph Richard Banks.]

Mixed

     The number of mixed marriages in The South is increasing, reports the NY Times in an article that focuses on Mississippi.

     I suspect the experiences of the couples profiled in the article, like being asked it they are together at a restaurant, even if they are arm-in-arm, are just as common in Alabama and the rest of the Old South.