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Drawing on examples such as the Los Angeles mayoral race, the U.S. Census interpretation, and Clarence Thomas, Professor Patterson declared that the “Press is racializing an issue” because of “intellectual laziness...
Same-sex couples seem to be settling down - or a least more willing to talk about their living arrangements. New Census 2000 information from Vermont and Delaware shows a huge increase in households containing "unmarried partners" of the same sex. In Delaware, the number of households fitting that description rose 700 percent, to 1,868, and in Vermont - the only state that allows same-sex civil unions - the numbers rose more than 400 percent, from about 370 in 1990 to 1,933 in 2000. Results from the rest of the states, including high-density population centers like California...
...numbers are a bit of an educated guess - there is no question about sexual preference on the census, but the question establishing the relationship between unmarried adults in a home gives options including "housemate," "boarder" and "other non-relative" in addition to "unmarried partner." Households where adults of the same gender chose "unmarried partner" may indicate a gay or lesbian relationship...
There are many reasons that Latino political influence has not kept pace with the Census, the most obvious being that many of those counted are neither citizens nor even legal residents of the U.S. Hispanics are more dispersed than, say, African Americans, which means legislators have to work harder to draw districts to maximize their voting power. And those enormous Census numbers do not translate at the polls, at least not yet. More than a third of Latinos are under the voting age; and those who are eligible to vote often don't. Though the Latino and African-American populations...
...Shenzhen branch of the Southeast Asia Certificate Co., Liu Xingyun offers a panoply of marriage certificates, drivers' licenses and even a document certifying that the bearer has had her fallopian tubes snipped. The most popular pieces of paper are college diplomas. Last year, census-takers found 600,000 people nationwide who said they had used spurious university degrees. "No one has time to go to school anymore," says a 21-year-old impatiently waiting for a steel engraving machine to roll out an accounting degree from Peking University. "I know I'm good at math, so I might as well...