Mary Sanchez: Let’s make the US census sexy again
Too many white people, not enough Blacks and Latinos. That rather crass shorthand reflects the problem of the 2020 U.S. Census, which had both under and overcounts within the official 331 million person total.
by Mary Sanchez, Tribune Content Agency
Mar 18, 2022
3 minutes
Too many white people, not enough Blacks and Latinos.
That rather crass shorthand reflects the problem of the 2020 U.S. Census, which had both under and overcounts within the official 331 million person total.
The final numbers tallied more white and Asian people than exist and undercut the number of Black people, by more than 3 percent.
But the counts were particularly egregious when it comes to Latinos, who were erased by some of the widest of percentages. One in every 20 Latinos, or nearly
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