According
to
href="http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070503/NEWS07/70503070">a
study done at the University of Michigan's
href="http://www.isr.umich.edu/home/">Institute for Social
Research, fewer people are identifying themselves as
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiracial" rel="tag">multiracial.
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.
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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