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Interesting bit:

>in 1970 the number of Hispanics was arrived at by a computer model that listed everyone with a Spanish surname as Hispanic

because census in 1970 did not allow differentiation Hispanics. It also probably means that decrease in whites from 70's to 80's is overstated.



They could check this by testing the same model against later census results.




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