Posted on 03/18/2008 1:57:10 PM PDT by mdittmar
I’m a sergeant-american. Used to be a corporal-american. My drill sergeant called me a maggot but left the american part out.
One flag, one language, one people. An American people.
Could you expand on that?
He didn't want to confuse us poor boot-americans.
If it weren't for leveraging group politics, where would the Democrat Party be?
Here are a couple of tid bits from it.
Seven percent of the U.S. population reported their ancestry as American. The number who reported American and no other ancestry increased from 12.4 million in 1990 to 20.2 million in 2000, the largest numerical growth of any group during the 1990s.5 This figure represents an increase of 63 percent, as the proportion rose from 5.0 percent to 7.2 percent of the population.
The largest European ancestries have decreased in population, while African American, Hispanic, and Asian ancestries have increased. The highest growth rates between 1990 and 2000 occurred in groups identified by a general heritage rather than a particular country of ancestry. For example, the number of people who reported Latin American, African, or European all more than quadrupled (Latin American increased from 44,000 in 1990 to 250,000 in 2000, African grew from 246,000 to 1.2 million, and European rose from 467,000 to 2.0 million). Other generalheritage groups that at least doubled in size included Western European, Northern European, Asian, Hispanic, and White.
And the punch-line to this PC Bull Shiite is the following.
The question on ancestry first appeared on the census questionnaire in 1980, replacing a question on where a person’s parents were born. The question on parental birthplace provided foreign origin data only for people with one or both parents born outside the United States. The current ancestry question allows everyone to give one or two attributions of their “ancestry or ethnic origin” (Figure 1), and in doing so, enables people to identify an ethnic background, such as German, Lebanese, Nigerian, or Portuguese, which was not otherwise identified in the race or Hispanic-origin questions.
The Census Bureau needs their ass kicked for even assembling bogus damn statistics like this. It's a rare person who can trace their 'ancestry' back more than 3 generations and claim only one or even two ancestries. The measure is total BS.
BTW. I taught my children when they were very young that they weren't Irish, German, French, Scotish, Dutch or any other damn nationality where their G-G-G grandparents escaped from for a better life from. They are Americans and only Americas. There is no hyphenation in my family.
With the next census, they need to eliminate that stupid question and go back to what it used to be.
It's way past time we get over this idiot race/nationality BS. It makes me sick.
We could have told y'all that and not had to go to all the bother. An' one other thing - it's all them other folks what talk funny. Ah bin up north - could'nt make a word out for almost three years. No wonder - none of 'ems even American. But I resent bein' called yeller.
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