Dropping “Other Race” from the U.S. Census

Census officials claim that forcing Hispanics and other mixed people into the official “racial” categories will “improve the accuracy of the nation’s racial data…” It sounds like a case of trying to ignore reality.

Plan to drop racial category from census stirs a debate
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/10003947.htm?1c

Hispanics Resist Racial Grouping by Census
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/national/24census.html

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