Study finds interracial connections were more than twice as likely to ‘defriend’ after the 2016 election

Interracial relationships between friends, acquaintances and relatives were more than twice as likely to dissolve after the 2016 election than those of the same race, a study recently published by sociologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found.

The study examined “defriending,” the decision that we sometimes make to discontinue a relationship….