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
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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.