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2/3rds

Josh — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:00:02 +0000

Found an interesting statistic about the United State’s population and makeup yesterday on a blog: “Shifting Voter Demographics: America is a Different Country.”

In 1965 the nation was 89% white and 11% black, about the same as it had been during the previous century. Since then, high levels of Asian and Latin immigration have produced an America today which is 66% white and 33% “people of color,” a tripling of the minority population in only four decades. Remarkably, 10% of Americans are of Mexican descent and about 5% of the electorate speaks primarily Spanish.

They don’t cite their sources, but as soon as the 2010 Census results comes out, we’ll have more concrete facts …

It’s Census Day!!

Josh — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:10:07 +0000

Forget April Fools’ Day, it’s Census Day in my world today. I think I’ve told you my affection for the decennial census (which is Constitutionally mandated – Article I, Section 2, you Tea Bagging-haters). Anyway the census is a snapshot of every household today, April 1, 2010.

We filled out ours last night and we had a revelation – see, for 36 days of the year Liz and I are the same age. April 1 is one of those days.

On the census form Liz and I the same age.

Weird, eh?

No Census Online

Josh — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:49:55 +0000

I love the decennial census, but you know this (see Census Fun).

We got our form in the mail the other day and I was confused to see you couldn’t fill the form out online. Doesn’t that seem like a logical option?

I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who found this odd: “One Thing You Still Can’t Do Online.”