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PoliticAverse

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3. Here's a scan of the actual 1940 Census. The Census specifically asks for a person's "Color or Race"

Fri Aug 3, 2018, 10:04 PM

Aug 2018

and Japanese is one of the specific choices.

The reason the citizenship question wasn't that important concerning internment is because virtually all Japanese citizens
would be of "Japanese" "Color or Race" so the citizenship question would just mirror the "Color or Race" one.

The majority of those interned were American citizens who would either leave the "Citizenship of the Foreign Born" spot
blank if they had been born in America or would have answered "Japan" again mirroring the "Japanese" "Color or Race" choice.

Thus the "Color or Race" "Japanese" choice would much more closely match those who were interred than the citizenship question as it would be a "superset" of the citizenship one.

https://1940census.archives.gov/downloads/1940-census-schedule.pdf

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Oppose the Census 2020 Citizenship Question (Courtesy of the Sikh Coalition) [View all] FreepFryer Aug 2018 OP

The people put in concentration camps in the US were actually US citizens. PoliticAverse Aug 2018 #1

I believe that's common knowledge. Not sure if the article is as decisive as your comment, though... FreepFryer Aug 2018 #2

Here's a scan of the actual 1940 Census. The Census specifically asks for a person's "Color or Race" PoliticAverse Aug 2018 #3

Understood. Thanks for that informative post! FreepFryer Aug 2018 #5

Yes, "Citizenship of the Foreign Born". n/t PoliticAverse Aug 2018 #6

almost all the census questions are invasive abuses and need to be got rid of nt msongs Aug 2018 #4