Guys, I have been doing geneology for quite a while and other than the first one or two, the census has always asked race.
These are the standard questions up until the last census available, 1930.
Name, age, race, relationship to head of household, state of birth, state of father’s birth, state of mother’s birth.
Trouble is now, (and this can be verified by looking at the *what sort of Hispanic are you* questions) it will be used for wealth redistribution including, monies going to illegal aliens.
geneology=genealogy. Me too. Census records are a godsend.