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Why do Americans so rarely marry across race and class lines? A new Census-linked study of 31 million people finds residential segregation explains over a third of class-based marriage sorting but less than 5% of racial sorting. Desegregation could boost interclass marriage, while barriers to interracial marriage run far deeper than neighborhoods.