Reynolds Farley Ph.D. reported:
The annual ACS, which samples about 3 million households, shows a clear trend, Farley says. In the 2000 survey, 2.1 percent checked more than one race. In 2005, it slipped to 1.9 percent. ”It’s a slight decrease but statistically significant,” Farley says.
Dr. Farley states "there's no overall explanation." There are a few hypothesis mentioned, but no one really knows why.
Demographers widely expected the numbers to rise as more children were born to mixed-race parents and multiracial organizations sprouted on college campuses. The opposite happened.
The article goes on to point out that census data lead to underestimations of the incidence of multiethnicity.
Comments
It may be that the long-stated desire to have a racially-blind, integrated society is happening.
Officially it seems that while the idea is to remove race/ethnicity as a barrier in our culture, there is an ingrained habit in the demographers and perhaps others to hang onto the labels.
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