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Originally Posted by dimondpark
-Hispanic isn't a race, so the Hispanic numbers will be pulled the same.
-The Asian and Black numbers below will include those that are "Asian/Black Alone" and "Asian/Black in Combination".
-The White numbers will only be those that are "White Alone".
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This would imply that Asian/Black in Combination are double counted in these topline totals and that many Hispanic people are being double counted as well (people are instructed to choose a race, so are also white or black or native, but many Hispanic and Latino people leave that blank or check other, which is a well documented statistical problem for a variety of reasons since the Census introduced that question).
Edit: for instance, it is possible - and for many is the case - to be both white alone and hispanic, and have properly filled out the census.
For these reasons, and others, I have found data that uses the following to be most accurate and faithful to the way most Americans see things:
• White (non-Hispanic/Latino) alone
• Black, African American (non-Hispanic/Latino) alone
• Asian, Pacific Islander, Indigenous Alaskan (non-Hispanic/Latino) alone
• Other (non-Hispanic/Latino) alone — generally Native American
• Multiracial (including Hispanic/Latino+Black, Asian, Pacific Islander, and Indigenous Alaskan)
• Hispanic/Latino (generally the balance of the total minus all of the above)
Another note is that Arab Americans and many others who would not generally self-describe as such, are also counted as white and that multiple cities may have fewer pastry-corn-bread whites than these toplines suggest.