Census 2010 Shines Light On A Nation In Transformation

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On April 1st, U.S. Census Director Robert Groves will officially announce the results of the 2010 Census. But the social, economic and cultural ramifications of the data are already reshaping how Americans see themselves and their country, and rattling the cages of those who would rather hold on to outdated notions of who we are and where we are going. On March 23rd, in a concerted effort to communicate the significance and relevance of census data to the business community, Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves will address hundreds of top marketing and advertising executives at a conference by the Advertising Research Foundation in New York City. The following day, the Bureau will release final numbers for state redistricting and 2010 Census Briefs on population distribution and race and ethnicity.

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Comments

[Bacon Torpedo]

02:38 AM on 04/25/2011

Gross

[spytheweb]

03:53 AM on 03/25/2011

"The increase in the U.S. Hispanic population is outpacing the general population." What did you think was going to happen when you have unchecked border crossings by illegals. Is this a good thing?

Mexico's government is 100% Hispanic and look at what a train wreck it is. When America hits the tipping point, they shut down the 14th automatic born citizenships, enact national biometric ID cards for US citizens, e-verify and these numbers will drop.

[Soule23]

09:06 AM on 03/25/2011

"Shut down the 14th"?

Hey Spy, what is it that you don't understand about ILLEGAL?!?

Or is that question only valid when you're posing it to rail against Mexicans?

[ugly american]

06:31 PM on 03/24/2011

I could not help but notice that the comment section in the original article was in Spanish while the piece itself was in English. Kind of odd.
Since one of the main nations that wants America to become "multi-cultural" is Mexico, when are they going to do away with their law that requires immigrants to their nation to refrain from trying to change their national culture in any way?
America has always been multi-cultural. Witness China Towns and German Towns all over the nation. What we don't need is to change our national culture or "multi-culture" to suit the people of any one nation, which seems to be what some are pushing to do.
When you call someplace and the options are more than "Marque el dos por espanol" (like "press 5 for Russian, 6 for German" then that might be true example of multi-cultural.
Until then it just appears the US is being asked to bend to only one other culture.
After all, how often do you hear "press 3 for Japanese"?

[Captain Ron]

08:59 PM on 03/22/2011

Can't wait to see what the future Project Runway designers can do with all that spandex leopard print and the yards of cheap black vinyl in the years to come.

[Picosa]

02:58 AM on 03/23/2011

How Dumb Are We?

NEW YORK – Newsweek gave 1,000 Americans the U.S. Citizenship Test—38 percent failed. The country's future is imperiled by our ignorance. Andrew Romano looks at the risks involved in America’s ignorance.

They’re the sort of scores that drive high-school history teachers to drink. When Newsweek recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn’t name the vice president. Seventy-three percent couldn’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights. And 6 percent couldn’t even circle Independence Day on a calendar.

Don’t get us wrong: civic ignorance is nothing new. For as long as they’ve existed, Americans have been misunderstanding checks and balances and misidentifying their senators. And they’ve been lamenting the philistinism of their peers ever since pollsters started publishing these dispiriting surveys back in Harry Truman’s day. (He was a president, by the way.) According to a study by Michael X. Delli Carpini, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, the yearly shifts in civic knowledge since World War II have averaged out to “slightly under 1 percent.”

But the world has changed. And unfortunately, it’s becoming more and more inhospitable to incurious know-nothings—like us.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/13043_americasignorancecouldposehugeproblems

[Soule23]

09:11 AM on 03/23/2011

Hey, hey, hey, you know that nothing the pointy-headed liberal academics has any validity whatsoever. Whatsoever I say. Who would want to listen to a bunch of nerds and their silly factoids anyway?

[MsGray]

03:36 PM on 03/23/2011

No mention of Heidi Klum, so once again Picosa, I'm trying to figure out how your point is relevant as a reply to the Captain.

[MsGray]

06:51 PM on 03/22/2011

More Hispanics, more Spanish speakers - not exactly promoting diversity, now are we?

[Karma Kop]

12:17 AM on 03/23/2011

2010 Census forms were printed in 6 languages; promotions and ads were delivered in 28 languages, including yours

[MsGray]

09:10 AM on 03/23/2011

That's irrelevant. When was the last time you pressed 2 for Swahili or Italian or Russian?

[Soule23]

09:12 AM on 03/23/2011

Too bad they couldn't have printed one in rac.ist for the racis.ts. Maybe the census bureau should try to be more sensitive to your needs next time.

[MsGray]

09:31 AM on 03/23/2011

Yawn.

[spytheweb]

04:00 AM on 03/25/2011

Any country that requires you to have a passport and visa is racist? But it's not racist when we naturalize more Mexicans as US citizens at twice the rate as any  other country?

Mexicans are flooding the country both as legal and illegal and they still want a bigger piece of the pie.

[Conscientious Objector 2]

05:52 PM on 03/22/2011

multicultural societies are inherently unstable, create forces that pit segments of society against one another, and encourage "solutions" that are a drain on productivity. compare japan with old yugoslavia or modern france.

[Karma Kop]

12:13 AM on 03/23/2011

Nazi Germany had a way of encouraging "solutions" too.

[Karma Kop]

12:25 AM on 03/23/2011

Or modern Germany with 1939 Germany

[MsGray]

09:16 AM on 03/23/2011

You're a fine example of one of those educated liberals I keep hearing about.

Please google Nazi Germany and then post, okay?

[Vampyre Dog]

05:26 PM on 03/22/2011

The US will be much like Argentina.

[Vampyre Dog]

05:33 PM on 03/22/2011

Ethnically like Brazil. Economically like Argentina.

[Conscientious Objector 2]

05:58 PM on 03/22/2011

yeah, a backwater that suffers from periodic long bouts of runaway inflation... an agrarian / natural resources exporter that invents nothing, manufactures next to nothing and has endemic high unemployment.

aim high

[SoutheastBeast]

05:26 PM on 03/22/2011

There is no bigger threat to the Republican Party than the browning of America. The GOP made great gains in the 2010 elections. But there was one state where they didn't win a single statewide office: California. Do you know why they didn't win a single statewide office there? Because the state is 60% non-white. And you know what? States like Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and many states in the South, will soon join California as majority minority.

And how do you think the GOP's anti-immigration rants will play under this new reality? What will happen to Republican legislatures in Arizona in 10 years when the gestapo-like immigration laws they recently passed, are being considered by a state where Latinos are the largest voting bloc?

There is one abiding law of the Universe: ye shall reap what ye sow.

[Vampyre Dog]

05:32 PM on 03/22/2011

What do you think will happen to the state debt? I predict that the governments will collapse allowing other forces to take over.

[smartdog]

05:08 PM on 03/22/2011

a lot of latinos say white people took over u.s. and took land from mexico and killed the indians. that's our legacy. the latinos fail to recognize spaniards colonozed mexico, central america and south america, displacing and killing their native peoples, forcing spanish on these people. so, latinos are just as agressive and bad as the people who took over the u.s. no better. so be honest.

[Picosa]

06:51 PM on 03/22/2011

When they say that they are correct. You do know that Spain is in Europe and Spaniards are considered to be white.

[smartdog]

05:04 PM on 03/22/2011

okay, extrapolate central and south america to north america. is that really an improved image in terms of ethics, middle class, economics, class distinction, women's rights, etc? for me, not so.

[Vampyre Dog]

05:47 PM on 03/22/2011

It actually explains things like the income gap, failing education, rising poverty, etc... All things change...

[Gus DiZerega]

04:43 PM on 03/22/2011

Read the names on an Adobe Photoshop box sometime and you'll see what helps make up for our failings.

[Just-a-Guy]

04:47 PM on 03/22/2011

I guess all those people are taking the jobs Americans refuse to do?

[ucche]

04:38 PM on 03/22/2011

When everybody immigrates from the same place (Mexico, Central America) then that doesn't make for much multi-culturalism thats just a bunch a people from the same place who refuse to speak English.

[papapj]

04:44 PM on 03/22/2011

Mexico and Central America are the same place, eh....?

Do you realize how backward and parochial that sounds.....do they wear shoes were you come from....?

[SoutheastBeast]

05:27 PM on 03/22/2011

Mexico is in North America.

[Shuey37]

04:31 PM on 03/22/2011

Gloat away libs, but one day you will see that it isn't whites that hispanics have a problem with. It's things like abortion and gay marriage. Most hispanics are christian. Not to mention that the black community has a growing problem with hispanics.

[izzat7]

06:03 PM on 03/22/2011

We have problems due to economic suppression genius.

[apartoflife]

06:15 PM on 03/22/2011

Most hispanics are Catholic not Christian. Mexico City (the third most populace city in the world) legalized gay marriage.

[Summer of 69]

10:59 AM on 03/24/2011

Did you really just say that Catholic isn't Christian? Lulzy.

[izzat7]

04:25 PM on 03/22/2011

There is a reason the rainbow is so beautiful.

[MsGray]

07:12 PM on 03/22/2011

LMAO.

[izzat7]

07:32 PM on 03/22/2011

Says ms GRAY

[squeezed]

04:12 PM on 03/22/2011

My kid's homeroom reads like roll call at the U.N. 

For our children, diversity is the norm.

[izzat7]

04:27 PM on 03/22/2011

And they will strive to work for a better country because of it.

[MsGray]

06:53 PM on 03/22/2011

LOL.