Given most Americans are white it's unavoidable that people from small groups have to marry them or remain unmarried. All I get from this chart is that a person's spouse is most likely to have the same ethnicity, even if their ethnicity is vastly outnumbered (except Laotian females because apparently the males don't exist). In other words ethnicities form cliques and marry within those cliques. America is not a "melting pot" of ethnicities, it's a layer cake of ethnicities.
Huh so if it's not their own race, White's are the preferred secondary choice.
Goes against all that interracial messaging trying to Blacks when they are least preferred according to this.
Given most Americans are white it's unavoidable that people from small groups have to marry them or remain unmarried. All I get from this chart is that a person's spouse is most likely to have the same ethnicity, even if their ethnicity is vastly outnumbered (except Laotian females because apparently the males don't exist). In other words ethnicities form cliques and marry within those cliques. America is not a "melting pot" of ethnicities, it's a layer cake of ethnicities.
Basically, I'd argue the only melting pot should be everyone agrees to live by western standards which controlled immigration managed to do.