Noncensus

[Beverly Flanigan]

I believe a certain proportion of the population gets a long census form,
right?  I recall helping my aunt with hers ten years ago, and it asked for
mother tongue, dominant language in the home, languages of the parents,
ancestral homes, etc.  This is an attempt, at least, to more precisely
subclassify the amorphous "white" population (and others too, of course).

At 09:01 PM 3/14/00 -0500, you wrote:
>NONCENSUS
>
>    "It's Noncensus" is the census story by James Taranto in the New York
>Press, March 15-21, 2000, pg. 2, col. 1.
>    "My mother...is an immigrant from Sweden," Taranto states, trying to draw
>in the Grant Barrett crowd.  "But we Swedish-Americans don't merit our own
>census classification.  There isn't even a 'Scandinavian' category.  Instead,
>we're lumped in with the likes of Belgians, Serbs and Bulgarians, all crowded
>into the 'White' box."
>    Do DARE and others rely on Census information such as this??