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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But you guys would be eligible for reparations to hang on to that report!  [/quote]

No they wouldn’t b/c [b]there isn’t “heritage” enough to qualify—this is from a census perspective and how racial qualifications were determined[/b].[/quote]

The census doesn’t work that way for African ancestry.

One of my grandmothers was at least 75% white. [/quote]

Your grandmother was classified as a quadroon:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadroon#Racial_classifications

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And here are terms used by the US census:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/04/every-term-the-census-has-used-to-describe-americas-racial-groups-since-1790/%3foutputType=amp
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Too far back to impact OP’s family.[/quote]

These terms were used until the 1950s.  It wasn’t until the 1960s that people were allowed to self identify on the us census:
https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/06/11/chapter-1-race-and-multiracial-americans-in-the-u-s-census/

And “negro” was dropped in 2013:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/OTUS/us-census-bureau-drops-negro-surveys/story%3fid=18591761
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