Posted on 05/21/2014 9:55:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Hispanics are often described as driving up the nonwhite share of the population. But a new study of census forms finds that more Hispanics are identifying as white.
An estimated net 1.2 million Americans of the 35 million Americans identified in 2000 as of “Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin,” as the census form puts it, changed their race from “some other race” to “white” between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, according to research presented at an annual meeting of the Population Association of America and reported by Pew Research.
The researchers, who have not yet published their findings, compared individual census forms from the 2000 and 2010 censuses. They found that millions of Americans answered the census questions about race and ethnicity differently in 2000 and 2010. The largest shifts were among Americans of Hispanic origin, who are the nation’s fastest growing ethnic group by total numbers. …
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Puerto Ricans = mulattoes (really quadroons) who think they are white until they come to the mainland.
Dominicans = blacks who claim to be mulattoes until they move to the US or PR. ;)
I live in Brazil. 1) We don’t speak Spanish down here, we speak Portuguese. 2) Many “whites” are actually racially mixed, as race in Brazil has more to do with literal color, rather than genetics. This is why, as is the case in my wife’s family, you can have siblings who are “Branco” or “Pardo.” 3)There are pure-blooded whites here, mostly descendants of late 19th/early 20th century immigrants from Italy, Germany, Portugal, Poland, etc., mostly in the south of the country.
The majority of Jews in PR came from Cuba post-Fidel. There is a smaller part of the community that came to PR from Europe after the US occupation.
I believe those are the labels that have been used for hundreds of years, and were the standard on things like Income Tax forms.
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