Noncensus

[A. Vine]

In fact, having just filled out the form, the classifications are generic except
for yellow/brown folks.  There is a white category, and a black category, and a
sort of red category, then yellow/brown folks get more subdivisions.  I don't
have the form in front of me to double check, but I remember noticing it.

Beverly Flanigan wrote:
>
> 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).
>
> Barry 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??