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But advocates for some minority groups are worried about undercounting and whether a citizenship question will be included.
“Mail? I feel like that’s a dead thing. And I don’t have a lot of people randomly knocking at my front door, so I would be a little weirded out.”
A federal judge in New York blocked the Trump administration from adding the question earlier this year.
The top names for boys and girls vary by U.S. region.
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The top names for boys and girls vary by U.S. region.
States and activists said adding the question would cause fewer immigrants and minorities to respond.
Adding a citizenship question to the census could be one of the Trump administration's most flagrant and consequential scandals.
Even if the question ultimately winds up on the census, a federal lawsuit showed just how determined the administration was to get it on the survey.
The plaintiffs say the administration's justification for adding the question is just a pretext to use the count to discriminate.