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