Julian Sanchez resents the wording in this poll on interracial marriage:
[T]he framing still embeds the assumption that “marriages between blacks and whites,” a term that encompasses about half a million distinct relationships in the United States, constitutes some kind of useful conceptual class, toward which people might coherently be expected to have a gestalt “pro” or “con” attitude. Imagine someone asked you whether you approved or disapproved of marriages between people with surnames whose initial letters fell in different halves of the alphabet. Would you say “approve,” or just give them a funny look? Or, for that matter, suppose you’re asked whether you approve of “relationships,” period. Most of us could only answer: “What do you mean? Which ones?”
The Dish 