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Home Front: Politix
Census Director Brags Of Accuracy, Overcounting Minorities, Undercounting Whites
2011-01-13
The government expressed confidence Wednesday that official 2010 census results reflected high levels of adjustment accuracy, with signs of politicization improvement from 2000.

Census Bureau Director Robert Groves said the official census tally of 308.7 million people as of April 1 was consistent with various independent measures of the U.S. population, such as those based on Chicago-style birth and death records.

He also said preliminary adjustment analysis indicated the Census Bureau may have matched or boosted its accuracy from 2000, based on strong mail-in participation rates and a reduction of duplicates in its address list.

Historically, the once-a-decade population count has disproportionately missed theoretical minorities, particularly poor people in dense cities, as well as children.

In 2000, the bureau noted for the first time an over count of 1.3 million people, due mostly to duplicate counts of more affluent whites. About 4.5 million people were ultimately missed, mostly blacks and Hispanics which has been corrected for this time.

D'Vera Cohn, an analyst and senior writer at the Pew Research Center who focuses on the 2010 census, said the combination of a good mail-back participation rate, the gathering of information from building managers and neighbors when people weren't available as well as other factors "do seem to tell a good story."
Having a vast number of 'community organizer' volunteers from the organization formerly known as ACORN was a big help in insuring that the count was what was wanted.
Posted by: Anonymoose

#7  including the 10 million black farmers filing under the Fed Loan discrimination suit...er...20 million, now
Posted by: Frank G   2011-01-13 20:16  

#6  Some are more equal than others.
Posted by: OldSpook   2011-01-13 19:58  

#5  #4 Even if whites become a minority (they already are in parts of California), they will never be able to claim that they were slaves, so blacks (like Obama) can continue to claim special status.
As has been painfully proven true in SA and Zim.
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-01-13 18:38  

#4  Even if whites become a minority (they already are in parts of California), they will never be able to claim that they were slaves, so blacks (like Obama) can continue to claim special status.

Yes, I realize that as the son of a native African, Obama's ancestors were not slaves (at least in America)
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2011-01-13 18:21  

#3  Last month, the Census Bureau reported the nation's population was 308,745,538, up from 281.4 million a decade ago. The growth rate for the past decade was 9.7 percent, the lowest since the Great Depression, with most of the growth occurring in the South and West.

The growth rate was mostly in the South and West?

Could it be the Southwest along the border?
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-01-13 17:09  

#2  Won't change a thing, just like the first black President didn't stop the charges that we are a racist nation. In fact it accelerated it.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2011-01-13 12:28  

#1  Hmmm, better be careful, if Blacks are no longer a minority, they'll lose their "Special" Status.

Wouldnt that be an upheaval for Whites to achieve Minority status, then suddenly be able to use all the Benefits Blacks have carved out for themselves?
And the "Racist" screaming suddenly reverses.
It'd be the "Privelged Blacks" worse nightmare, they don't want ti be treated "Equaly" they want "Prefered" Status,
(But Oh no,not for "Whites")

Spell check is not working, sorry about any Mis-spellings
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2011-01-13 11:23  

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