muon2
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« on: November 01, 2018, 08:01:38 AM » |
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There's precedent for states overcoming anti-immigrant rhetoric on a Census with a citizenship question. In 1990 CA suffered a significant undercount and in 1994 passed Prop 187 which denied services to undocumented immigrants. Both the 1990 and 2000 Census had a citizenship question given to 1/6 of all households. CA did a major investment in Census education and despite the lingering effects of Prop 187 drove up the response rate among minorities (including immigrants) in 2000 compared to 1990.
So the impact of the rhetoric and citizenship question can be mitigated, but it will cost those states money to do so.
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