We had multiple posts on Paterson, NJ the last few days. While looking at it, a few things popped out. One is that it’s the second largest Muslim population in the US, per capita. Dearborn, Michigan has the largest. If you look at Dearborn’s wiki page, something may be amiss.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dearborn,_Michigan
As of the 2010 census, the population of Dearborn was 98,153. The racial and ethnic composition was 89.1% White, 4.0% black or African-American, 0.2% Native American, 1.7% Asian, 0.2% Non-Hispanic of some other race, 4.0% reporting two or more races and 3.4% Hispanic or Latino.[26] 41.7% were of Arab ancestry (categorized as "White" in Census collection data).[27]
In the 2000 census, 61.9% spoke only English at home, 29.3% spoke Arabic
The city's population includes 40,000 Arab Americans. Per the 2000 census, Arab Americans totaled 29,181 or 29.85% of Dearborn's population; many are descendants of families who have been in the city since the early 20th century.
There has been a common practice of accidentally classifying “Hispanic” as “white” that may accidentally end up “distorting population numbers”. They have started doing this same thing with Arabs.
Apparently this category change stems from at least the 2020 census.
https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/2024/demo/pop-wps-108.html
Source threads:
Well I was told, by a census taker, that Hispanics can classify themselves as white, black or negro, now this is a first for me-accidental classification as white-unbelievable. I do know that Michigan has a high population of Arab Americans. The information was very interesting. Plus they count jailed populations in the census also.
Latinos have self-identified as white for a long time. My wife is from Mexico and is whiter than me, of English-German decent. Her heritage is mostly from Spain.
White maybe, but Caucasian ?
It seems like both the classifications are stupid, and the reasons for the classifications are stupid, and potentially evil in both cases.
The only reason for this data to be collected is to communicate things back to their consituency (whoever that actually is), but it seems more like it’s used to monitor us, track progress, determine where to throw punches, and deceive us.
Good thoughts. I have no idea. I do know they gave Trump a fit over the census the last time he was in office.
Well I don't want to be white either. If I'm >50% irish then I should be Irish American and be a minority too.
Why is “American” never a “Race” option?
MFers want division.
Or even better, “What nationality are you?” “I am of my state.”
It is an option on the census form, check the "Other" option and write in American
How awesome would it be if everybody started doing that in 2030?
In many of the criminal online databases of incarcerated individuals where you can see their mugshots, name, age, race, etc., they are listing many Black, Hispanic or Asians as 'white' for their race in order to skew the national crime data statistics. I think they want to downplay the crimes committed by some groups and blame them on other groups.
Also, they want to cover up that we no longer have a white majority in the country.
Misidentification by skin color is far less concerning than the deception that’s clearly being done intentionally.
To my surprise, my friends who are Puerto Rican self-identify as white. These are lifelong friends (since junior high and we're now in our 60s) and we had never discussed how any of us identify. So I guess AOC better take a seat when it comes to race since Puerto Ricans are identifying as white!
Unless they're black...
This isn't new, we've done this pretty much our entire history. Ethnically speaking most arabs and "north africans" ARE at least partially of white ancestry if not outright white depending on where you're talking about specifically.
To give you a historical example, most of what people consider to be "ancient egyptian culture", was actually white greeks that took over egypt and adopted their culture.
Here in the US, and most other nations, we kind of just lump everyone with some kind of vague European ancestry as "white" so long as they obviously aren't black or asian. For most of our history we classified mexicans as white (before we invented the hispanic category), because most mexicans and latin americans ARE mainly white since most of their ancestry is traced to spain, and obviously spanish people are WHITE EUROPEANS.
If you honestly went solely by Ethnic categories, the US is like 80%+ white. We're like 60% white Anglo-germanic, (which is what most people think of when they think of stereotypical "white people"), but if you include EVERYONE, all the mexicans and latin americans (legally and illegally), the north africans/arabs, etc. The US is like 80-85% white I believe.
This isn't anything new, the only thing that's changed in the last 100 years is the fact that the cencus bungholes, in an effort to push a narrative, have tried to create new categories to fragment the "white demographic" in order to push a narrative that white people aren't the majority anymore. As many others in this thread are pointing out, hispanics overwhelming self identify as white, and while not identical, mostly share a lot of the same cultural values as anglo-germanic descended Americans (basically, Christian European values).
Of course that doesn't include the obvious lawless invaders who're more or less subhumans in their behavior and mentality, but as far as LEGAL hispanics go, they're more or less the same as the rest of us.
The arab part is a bit trickier, because not ALL arabs are white, but a good portion of them are.
Another shady thing they do is they've added the "two or more races" category. If you look at the self reporting on that category, roughly 85-90% self identify as white, but because they listed a "non white" ancestor somewhere in their family history, they get recategorized.
If you want me to be SUPER technical, there are only three "races". Caucasians (white people of all ethnicities), Africans (black people of all ethnicities) and mongoloids (asians of all ethnicities). And before anyone jumps down my throat, they're called mongoloids because of the fact that 90% of ALL asians can trace their ancestry to Genghis Khan. That includes china, all of india, japan, korea, vietnam, and even parts of russia and the far east part of the middle east.
So technically there ARE only three races, and everything else you'd use to categorize a person is an "ethnicity" that's more based on their cultural and geopolitical background
Hispanic is not a race - it simply means that you or your ancestors originally lived in a Spanish speaking culture. We shouldn't be questioning the classification as much as the need for the classification. Most Hispanics as we think of them (Mexico, South and Central America)are of mixed racial background (Mestizo) but have grown up thinking of themselves as of the Hispanic "race".
100%
As noted, my big issue with it is that they’re clearly using it as an offensive weapon of deception and targeting against us. All.