Census done!

[Stealth Hunter]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Actually Limbaugh came up wtih that...

That doesn't surprise me.

Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo

My wife plans to answer... Race? 'Human'

"Human" would refer to our species, not race.

Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo

I was also struck by a general impression of "we really dont care what race you are unless your hispanic".

Really there weren't that many. Just two per person. Question #8, for example asks: "Is Person 1 of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin?" The options being:

• No, not of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin
• Yes, Mexican, Mexican Am., Chicano
• Yes, Puerto Rican
• Yes, Cuban
• Yes, another Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin (print origin; for example, Argentinian, Colombian, Dominican, Brazilian, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran, Spaniard, and so on)

I got two census papers, for whatever reason.

Question #9 simply asked: "What is Person 1's race?" The default was white, black, American Indian or Alaska Native (then you were supposed to print the tribe name). Nothing asking for Hispanic information. The only two that broke down into furthering categories were Other Asian (print race; for example, Hmong, Laotian, Thai, Pakistani, Cambodian, and so on) and Other Pacific Islander (print race; for example, Fijian, Tongan, and so on).

For each other person, this was the case. I'll get around to posting scans of the extra copy I got tomorrow, just so everybody can see them and keep them for future reference (otherwise, we'll all probably forget what was on them in no time!).