What the 2020 census can and can’t tell us about race : Code Switch : NPR


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An artistic portrayal of the changing demographics of the United States.

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An artistic portrayal of the changing demographics of the United States.

LA Johnson

The 2020 census data is finally here! At first glance, it paints a surprising portrait of a changing United States: The number of people who identify as white and no other race is smaller; the share of multiracial people has shot up; and the country’s second-largest racial group is… “some other race.” But resident census-expert Hansi Lo Wang told us that when you start to unpack the data, you quickly find that those numbers don’t tell the whole story.

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