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"The varying ways in which the U.S. government has counted Americans over time offer a glimpse into the country’s past, from the days of slavery to recent waves of immigration. Racial categories, which have been included on every U.S. census since the first one in 1790, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times."

Read more from Pew Research Center on the evolution of how the #Census counted race, ethnicity and origin: pewrsr.ch/2X4IGPo

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The changing categories the U.S. census has used to measure race

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Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.

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