Clarence Page: New census shows fewer white Americans, but that’s because of how we’re counting
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Aug 22, 2021
2 minutes
Are you alarmed or reassured by headlines that show “America’s white population is shrinking”? Where you stand, as the old saying goes, depends on where you sit.
I think everyone who believes in our multiracial democracy — not including, say, those die-hard haters who paraded with torches in Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting, “You will not replace us” in 2017 — should be reassured.
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