My Two Census

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As the Associated Press has demonstrated, more than 1 in 14 Americans (21.7 million people) had to hand-write their race into the low-tech census form because the choices on the Census Bureau’s form weren’t adequate to cover America’s growing and diversifying population.

“More than 21.7 million — at least 1 in 14 — went beyond the standard labels and wrote in such terms as ‘Arab,’ ”Haitian,’ ”Mexican,’ and ‘multiracial.’”

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This entry was posted on January 31st, 2012 at 5:59 pm by Stephen Robert Morse.
It is filed under Accountability, Census Form, Minorities, Operations, Statistics.