>It is the same here, and I am in the South. There are so many inter-racial couples around military bases that it is common. Most of the kids all have friends whose parents are from different races.

That's the popular vote. Follow the money, it doesn't go the same way. I've once got something as benign as the firem... firepers... flprewq... firefighters' magazine, or was it metal workers... some guys with helmets. There was a total of one (1) picture, on the back page, where the guys were mixed.

Which made me look around - again, where the money is. Generally, less than one in twenty ads will have mixed scenes. And if the black and white appear in the same ad, they are usually not seen together, and there's usually some third ethnicity thrown in, just to show the diversity. IOW, there are ads where diversity is THE point.

Funny, though, that the world of crime takes care to mix them all up, while the world of comedy does not - all of the LOrder, CSI, various morgues and other specialized cops have mixed teams (well, NCIS doesn't, unless we count the victims), while I don't remember seeing any of personnel diffusion between, say, Nanny and Jamie Foxx.