The census bureau started counting race and ethnicity separate in 1990. Overwhelmingly, like 95 percent, the people who list themselves in some other category are Hispanics who don't understand they are white. The census bureau has studied this.
Not sent from an iPhone On Feb 27, 2018, 12:00 PM, at 12:00 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >I am not sure what you mean here. “Hispanic” is an ethnicity, not a >race. >People can identify as both Hispanic and some other race or they can >identify as Hispanic and leave race blank. The US govt pays attention >to >“White, not Hispanic “, but without that qualifier when people treat >Hispanic as a race the numbers will often not add up to 100%. > >Again, none of that matters. That district is reliably Democratic. If >any >Republican won it this year a number of apocalyptic events would >already >have happened. > >On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:01 AM Steve Timko <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> That's the problem with these mass produced data websites. They barf >out >> numbers with no corrections. What you have is about 30% of the >Hispanics >> counting themselves as some other race. The good news for Dash is >that >> almost all of them are probably white. The bad news is that a high >> percentage of them are probably immigrants, since immigrants tend to >get >> this question wrong more frequently than native born. >> >> The district is probably 70-73 percent white. >> >> Not sent from an iPhone >> On Feb 26, 2018, at 2:04 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I wish Dash the worst of luck. She makes the 4Chan people seem >lucid by >>>> comparison. I would not put her in charge of an office lunch order, >let >>>> alone want her to have any actual decision-making powers. >>>> >>> >>> From Ballotpedia: >>> >>> California 44th >>> 70.5% Hispanic >>> 15.1% Black >>> 4.6% Asian >>> 49% White (obviously includes some Hispanic) >>> >>> Incumbent Nanette Barragan (D) is running again. As a rule >incumbents >>> don't get ousted unless there is a scandal or it's a wave election >against >>> their party. >>> >>> *Race Ratings* >>> *Cook Political Report*: *Solid D* >>> *Sabato's Crystal Ball*: *Safe D* >>> *Inside Elections*: *Solid D* >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >-- >Sent from Gmail Mobile > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >an email to [email protected]. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
