Fewer Americans call themselves multiracial - USATODAY.com: The share of Americans who identify themselves as multiracial has shrunk this decade, an unexpected trend in an increasingly diverse nation.
About 1.9% of the people checked off more than one race in a 2005 Census Bureau survey of 3 million households, a meaningful decline from two surveys in 2000.
'There's no overall explanation' for the drop, says Reynolds Farley, a research scientist at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research who analyzed the trend.
The data show that the nation continues to wrestle with racial identity even in the face of growing diversity, he says. 'We're a society where we still basically assume everyone is in one race,' he says.
