The 2020 Census undercounted Black, Latino, and Native Americans

[Anonymous]

The Black population has likely been undercounted for decades. It is likely at least 25 percent of the US population. White racism is awful.

[Anonymous]

Historically, many minority populations have been undercounted for a variety of reasons. This time around, the administration was pretty happy about it and didn’t bother with the kind of outreach that was done in previous census counts. I’m pretty sure that was a deliberate and welcomed “oversight”. During an earlier census count, I worked in an area with many high-risk kids and families. I remember people in the community were hired to go door to door in their own communities to collect census data — putting more neighborly faces on the government’s efforts to collect accurate data. I’m not clear that outreach efforts of that sort were done this time.

Fewer minorities will mean fewer people in districts that have significant minority populations— which might mean less representation and less money in districts that are likely to lean Democratic. Again, I’m sure the undercounts were just an “oversight “.

Recently I read that, in contrast, white people were over-counted — and I’m trying to understand that. I get missing data that results in an undercount, but what has to happen to get an OVER count?

[Anonymous]

If certain types of people don’t want to respond to the census, and are therefore undercounted, who cares?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If certain types of people don’t want to respond to the census, and are therefore undercounted, who cares?

The people who are tasked with producing and accurate census count?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If certain types of people don’t want to respond to the census, and are therefore undercounted, who cares?

Everyone who genuinely cares about the Constitution. And everyone who cares about justice and democracy.
I’m guessing that those who only claim to care about the Constitution, including many who haven’t actually read it, might not care too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If certain types of people don’t want to respond to the census, and are therefore undercounted, who cares?

Everyone who genuinely cares about the Constitution. And everyone who cares about justice and democracy.
I’m guessing that those who only claim to care about the Constitution, including many who haven’t actually read it, might not care too much.

+1

Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3. https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI_S2_C3_1/ Either you care about the Constitution (Im An OrIgInAlIsT) or you don’t.

[Anonymous]

How do they count someone who is half black and half something else?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do they count someone who is half black and half something else?

“People who identify with more than one race may choose to provide multiple races in response to the race question. For example, if a respondent identifies as "Asian" and "White," they may respond to the question on race by checking the appropriate boxes that describe their racial identities and/or writing in these identities on the spaces provided.”
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade/2020/planning-management/release/faqs-race-ethnicity.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot more information in this source.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/597704-census-undercounted-minority-groups-bureau-says

The only part of all of this much ado about nothing that matters, “ In total, though, Census officials said they were largely satisfied with the overall effort to count Americans. They said there would be no need to reallocate each state’s share of the population for the purposes of representation in the U.S. House of Representatives or in electoral college votes.

“The total census count appears robust and consistent with recent censuses,” said Timothy Kennel, assistant chief of the Bureau’s Decennial Statistical Studies Division.”

[Anonymous]

Right wingers are just catching up to this, I guess. It’s too bad that we have to wait until 2030 for a census that will be more accurate (hopefully; I guess we never know what the GOP will be up to by then).