According to the report, the multi-ethnic population in the United States has soared 276% from 9 million in 2010, reaching 33.8 million in 2020. This means that in the past decade, the number of mixed-race people in the United States has soared. But this is inconsistent with the fact that the total population has only increased by 6% in the past ten years.
The problem lies in the design and interpretation of the census questionnaire. Some options provided to the public in the 2020 questionnaire were not available in the previous survey. For example, in 2020, a person who fills out a form can say that he or she is purebred white or mixed white. This option did not exist in the last questionnaire. Therefore, the person who filled out the form that he was white in 2010 may be changed to be a mixed race in the 2020 survey. In other words, even with the same number of people, under the design of the questionnaire in 2020, the number of purebred whites obtained will be less than in 2019. This led to the idea that "there are fewer and fewer whites", and the fact is that the number of purebred whites has not changed much. The worst part of this questionnaire is the handling of Hispanics and Latinos. In general, the questionnaire shows that the proportion of this population in the U.S. population has increased from 16.3% to 18.7%, which is an increase but not outrageous. However, the report continues to analyze that the number of purebred whites among Hispanics and Spanish learning games has decreased by 52.9%, from 26.7 million to 12.6 million. Such a statement really makes people think that American Hispanic/Latino whites are about to disappear, or that the number of immigrants has soared in the past decade.
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