RE: Two Israeli Embassy Workers Assassinated Outside D.C. Jewish Museum
May 26, 2025 at 1:44 pm
(May 22, 2025 at 10:21 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote:0%, renaming the country doesn't change that.(May 22, 2025 at 9:24 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Hiding the influx of Hispanic people would probably have been easier if not for the fact that they've had their own specific category on the US Census since 1970, and they don't neatly fit into the "races" question for reasons that, for once, I admit you actually hit the nail on the head.
That said, how were they counted before then? Except for the 1930 Census that recognised "Mexican" as its own category, they were counted as white, largely working under the assumption that, since Spaniards were responsible for colonising Latin America (except for the parts that were colonised by Portugal) in much the same way that the English (and, to a lesser extent, the French) did for America, and since Spaniards and Portuguese people counted as white, so must their descendants. That said, by 1970, they figured out that it was a LOT more complicated and relegated that to its own question.
"whites" in the traditional American history sense make up