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.
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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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