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More Hispanics Declaring Themselves White
New York Times ^ | May 21, 2014 | Nate Cohn

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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To: luvbach1

So she has that loss of pigment disease some blacks get...wink wink!


61 posted on 05/21/2014 12:47:02 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (It was never Bush's fault...Spock's messing with red matter was what screwed us all up!)
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To: Texan5

Those forms are just used to fill racial quotas, and are in themselves racist and divisive-like I said below-make it two boxes-”Human” and “Other”...
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Quotas were the big thing for HR depts. in the ‘80s-’90s. I had a co-worker friend who told me that he checked the box “Native American” on his application form. He was just a regular Caucasian like me, but met a quota and was given preference under Aff. Action.

That’s where all this PC language is misleading. All of us born in the US are Native Americans, but it doesn’t mean we are American Indians.


62 posted on 05/21/2014 12:50:52 PM PDT by octex
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To: cll

If I may add a little to what you correctly stated...

When I was in the Air Force, I deployed to Morón Air Base. Morón de la Frontera is less than 20 miles from Sevilla, which is smack-dab in Andalucia. Puerto Ricans (for one,) are mostly descendants of Andalucians.

PS: Andalucians do NOT consider themselves to be equivalent to Castillians, who are different from the Gallicians, who are very different from the Basques...the folks in Spain are very territorial about that.


63 posted on 05/21/2014 1:12:49 PM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: JRios1968

I’ve heard people call Old San Juan more Andalusian than Seville itself!

You are right, in aspect manners, customs and culture, PRs are mostly Andalusian, and the “minority” here who are descendants from the Castillians, Basques, Galicians, etc. of Northern Spain are the “blanquitos”.


64 posted on 05/21/2014 1:25:43 PM PDT by cll (Serviam!)
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To: cll

Amen...God knows how many Castillian, etc friends I made in Colegio de Mayaguez, and they were all “blanquitos”


65 posted on 05/21/2014 1:34:49 PM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: Olog-hai
My friend is a manager in a major US insurance company.

One day, he had to call an Indian guy into his office for an embarrassing conversation. He needed the guy to change his "white" description of himself on some government bean counting form because he was messing up the department's diversity numbers!

He's now in the "Asian" column.

66 posted on 05/21/2014 1:40:34 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: JRios1968

And to confuse the issue further, many if not most families from southern Spain, and most if not all of those who migrated to the Americas, are recently found to be actually Sephardic Jews in origin!

There’s a wave now in Puerto Rico of people reconnecting with their Jewish roots. I found that my four last names (one Andalusian, one Basque, and two Galician), are all actually Sephardic Jew surnames.

Check out Sephardim.com


67 posted on 05/21/2014 1:40:45 PM PDT by cll (Serviam!)
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To: octex

Thank you very kindly-in light of what archaeologists find on nearly a daily basis that shows how mixed up we have been for millennia, there is no logical reason for anyone to be a racist or a guilt monger-it seems early people were happy to breed, travel, trade and make alliances with anybody of like mind, and trade was likely the biggest motivator for friendly relations-wars were probably fought over resources and property-not how someone looked, but whether they behaved like an ass**** or not.


68 posted on 05/21/2014 2:10:53 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: JRios1968; cll

Most of my ancestors were Basques from the Pyrenees-Basque surnames are common in the SW TExas ranch country where I’m from-Basques were keepers of sheep, goats, etc and the country in the SW is good for that-part of my family still does it. Lighter skin and eyes, red and dark blonde hair are not uncommon, either.


69 posted on 05/21/2014 2:24:47 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5
As a Basque (and a white man) you are ineligible to be Hispanic.
Sorry. Try working the Mexican angle. Stay away from the sheep and goats, drop jai alai, and play more baseball.

You can always tell a Basque, but you can't tell him much.

70 posted on 05/21/2014 2:30:10 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Vote for a gay African Marxist for POTUS? Sure. What could go wrong?)
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To: octex

I guess they could make it more confusing and have a box for Indigenous American...


71 posted on 05/21/2014 2:30:52 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Kenny Bunk

Can’t change several centuries of habitation in the new world-sorry-I still live in the country and will have livestock as soon as I have space-but I do love to play softball. And my ancestors originally came to Mexico from Spain-by the time they decided moving north a bit made sense-in the late 1700’s-they were already interbred with Natives of several tribes, and fellow travelers from other areas of Spain.


72 posted on 05/21/2014 2:39:22 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: cll

Thanks so much, cll. Now, I know. It’s a beautiful place. Kinda scary, though, because of the seismicity there.


73 posted on 05/21/2014 2:42:08 PM PDT by KGeorge (Till we're together again, Gypsy girl. May 28, 1998- June 3, 2013)
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To: Kenny Bunk

MrT5 was a 2nd generation American of French Canadian ancestry-most of his relatives still lived in Quebec. They were the most ethnically snooty people I’ve ever met, but since I’ve never known any French from any other country outside of the US, I have no idea if they were that way because they were Canadians from Quebec or whether it was because they were ethnic French...


74 posted on 05/21/2014 2:54:46 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Olog-hai

I have a Basque surname and that’s almost Hispanic, right?


75 posted on 05/21/2014 3:16:35 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: KGeorge

I went to the Canary Islands in 2010 on a transatlantic cruise that started in Barcelona, went around the Mediterranean for a week, and then traced the migration route to San Juan.

It is beautiful, indeed, but very depressed, after so many years of fascism followed by socialism. Official unemployment is 30 percent, so the real figure should be much higher than that. And it shows. So many Spaniards remain chronically “parados”, their term for unemployed - literally, halted, and yet they still encourage massive immigration from Eastern Europe and North Africa. They hit rock bottom, yet they keep on digging.

It’s the wanton suicide of a former world power. And the same thing will happen here in the U.S. if we don’t halt it real soon.


76 posted on 05/21/2014 6:39:04 PM PDT by cll (Serviam!)
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To: Texan5
I have no idea if they were that way because they were Canadians from Quebec or whether it was because they were ethnic French...

Many Basques also live in France, in La Cote Basque, in fact. They run the smuggling operations in the Pyrenees. And yes, mon ami, les québecois, they can be quite .... how you say ... snooty? But usually not, if you speak excellent French, are an exceptional hockey player, a rigorous Catholic, and hate all Canadians who are not from your neighborhood in Québec city. Other than that, they get along fine with almost anybody.

77 posted on 05/21/2014 7:14:49 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Vote for a gay African Marxist for POTUS? Sure. What could go wrong?)
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To: cll

How lucky you are! We considered expatriating to Spain (Andalusia, I guess) in the late 80s/ early 90s. The cost of living was pretty good then- a lot of growth.

It’s horrible that their economy is so bad (Portugal also). Italy is bad about accepting immigrants, too. History would call this an invasion & it would be repelled.
Our governments are making a hideous mess. Who are the UN that they can do this to us?


78 posted on 05/21/2014 10:51:51 PM PDT by KGeorge (Till we're together again, Gypsy girl. May 28, 1998- June 3, 2013)
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To: KGeorge
Spaniards are “White”. Many Hispanics claim to be descendants of the Canary Islanders. I’m not sure why.

I've only met IRL one person who claimed descent from the Canary Islands, and to my knowledge he never self-identified as "Hispanic."

79 posted on 05/21/2014 10:54:04 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: cll

Not entirely true. Most Puerto Ricans have African ancestry as well as white ancestry. Most “whites” in Puerto Rico would not be considered white in Europe and the US. As is the case here in Brazil, “white” often means “racially mixed, but fair skinned” rather than based on genetics.


80 posted on 05/22/2014 8:32:10 AM PDT by Clemenza (Lurking)
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