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Who counts as white on the census?

Today, Explained

The Conversation About Race Is Always Changing

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The census bureau does a lot of research ahead of conducting a national head count, specifically aboutrcen enicity and how concepts of that have changed over the years. It was not until 19 60 when us. Residents were first allowed to self report their race on the census. And we may get more detailed data about race ethnisty later from the 20 20 censes. But for now, those folks, their data is captured in the white data, if that's how they identified on the 20 20Censors.

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