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This Is How The White Population Is Actually Changing Based On New Census Data<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

National Public Radio<\/a>
2021-08-22<\/p>\n

Hansi Lo Wang<\/strong><\/a>, Correspondent, National Desk<\/p>\n

Ruth Talbot<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some news coverage of the latest 2020 census results<\/a> may have led you to think the white population in the U.S.<\/a> is shrinking or in decline.<\/p>\n

The actual story about the country’s biggest racial group is more complicated than that.<\/p>\n

And it’s largely the result of a major shift in how the U.S. census<\/a> asks about people’s racial identities. Since 2000, the forms for the national, once-a-decade head count have allowed participants to check off more than one box when answering the race question<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the 2020 census results show fewer people checking off only the “White” box compared with in 2010, there was an almost 316% jump<\/a> in the number of U.S. residents who identified with the “White” category and one or more of the other racial groups. Their responses boosted the size of a white population that includes anyone who marked “White.”…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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