General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOppose the Census 2020 Citizenship Question (Courtesy of the Sikh Coalition)
http://www.sikhcoalition.org/get-involved/take-action/take-action-oppose-census-2020-citizenship-question/
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)The census used questions on race (which are still on the census) to identify areas containing populations of
Americans of Japanese descent. See: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confirmed-the-us-census-b/
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)The language leads me to believe that citizenship and racial ancestry were both factors. Can you provide a link that citizenship was not one of the microdata factors mentioned (I believe the article implies it was)?
Thanks for that excellent link!
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)and Japanese is one of the specific choices.
The reason the citizenship question wasn't that important concerning internment is because virtually all Japanese citizens
would be of "Japanese" "Color or Race" so the citizenship question would just mirror the "Color or Race" one.
The majority of those interned were American citizens who would either leave the "Citizenship of the Foreign Born" spot
blank if they had been born in America or would have answered "Japan" again mirroring the "Japanese" "Color or Race" choice.
Thus the "Color or Race" "Japanese" choice would much more closely match those who were interred than the citizenship question as it would be a "superset" of the citizenship one.
https://1940census.archives.gov/downloads/1940-census-schedule.pdf
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)But is it not true that citizenship status was also asked, and collated, as part of the process as the Sikh Coalition mentions?