ABSTRACT
Racial attitudes are complex and deeply imbedded in people's personalities. The percentage of American Whites who accept racial intermarriage was 36 percent in 1963, 48 percent in 1970, and 59 percent in 1972. Much of the change in racial attitudes in the past has been concentrated among the young. White people under age 25 have always had racial attitudes more tolerant than those of their elders, and between 1963 and 1970 this generation gap was increasing. Changes in racial attitudes have been more likely to occur in the smaller metropolitan centers under 2 million population. The problem has shifted from the acceptance of the principle of racial integration to the question of the practical policies which most effectively will achieve racial justice. When the influence of education and region on prointegration attitudes is considered simultaneously, it is clear that the effects of education are consistent in the North and the South.
