Here's Why The Census Started Counting Latinos, And How That Could Change In 2020
Here's Why The Census Started Counting Latinos, And How That Could Change In 2020 Enlarge this image Chelsea Beck/NPR Chelsea Beck/NPR In the 1970s, the nation's Latino advocacy groups had grown fed up with the U.S. Census Bureau. Groups including the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and ASPIRA complained that the Census "had a question that only went to 10 percent of households, and it wasn't in Spanish, and there hadn't been a mobilization campaign," says Cristina Mora, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley. In this week's episode of the Code Switch podcast, Mora tells the fascinating story of how, in the 1970s, Latino advocacy groups successfully lobbied the federal government to create a separate category for counting Hispanics and Latinos. Sponsor Message Code Switch The U.S. Census and Our Sense of Us The U.S. Census and Our Sense of Us Listen · 25:44 25:44 For people of color, the push to be accurately counted has always been high stakes because the size of ethnic minority populations directly affects the ability that groups speaking for them have to secure federal funding and to influence the way Congressional and other voting districts are drawn.
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