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100 years ago, Congress threw out results of the census

  • Written by Walter Reynolds Farley, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Michigan
A "very small section' of the Census Bureau, sometime between 1910 and 1930.Library of Congress

The 2020 Census hasn’t even started – but it has already kicked off spirited fights.

A Supreme Court case, decided last year, blocked a Trump administration proposal to ask every respondent if they were a citizen.

Meanwhile, there are three...

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