{"id":16950,"date":"2011-10-10T01:29:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T01:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16950"},"modified":"2011-10-10T01:29:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T01:29:23","slug":"mixed-race-numbers-double-since-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16950","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-race numbers double since 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuscaloosanews.com\/article\/20111004\/NEWS\/111009902\/1007\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed-race numbers double since 2000<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuscaloosanews.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Tuscaloosa News<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tuscaloosa,_Alabama\" target=\"_blank\">Tuscaloosa, Alabama<\/a><br \/>\n2011-10-04<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dana Beyerle<\/strong>, Montgomery Bureau Chief<\/p>\n<p><em>More than twice as many people in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alabama\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama<\/a> say they are of two races than 10 years earlier<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montgomery,_Alabama\" target=\"_blank\">MONTGOMERY<\/a> | Alabama\u2019s black population increased slightly between 2000 and 2010, but the number of people claiming mixed-race status more than doubled, according to researchers at the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>More than twice as many people in Alabama indicated they were of mixed race in 2010 as they did on the 2000 Census, the first time the option was available.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, 13,068 Alabamians reported they were of two races, one of which was black. For the 2010 Census, 29,807 Alabamians indicated that they were of mixed-race status.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cba.ua.edu\/personnel\/ctrent\" target=\"_blank\">Carolyn Trent<\/a>, socio-economic analyst at the Center for Business and Economic Research\u2019s state data center, said Monday the mixed-race increase probably reflects a growing willingness to identify a person\u2019s dual heritage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuscaloosanews.com\/article\/20111004\/NEWS\/111009902\/1007\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed-race numbers double since 2000 The Tuscaloosa News Tuscaloosa, Alabama 2011-10-04 Dana Beyerle, Montgomery Bureau Chief More than twice as many people in Alabama say they are of two races than 10 years earlier MONTGOMERY | Alabama\u2019s black population increased slightly between 2000 and 2010, but the number of people claiming mixed-race status more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,8,20],"tags":[1199,7764,7766,7765],"class_list":["post-16950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-alabama","tag-carolyn-trent","tag-dana-beyerle","tag-the-tuscaloosa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}