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yellowdogintexas

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5. I worked the 2020 Census and it was very interesting just who was suspicious of the census.
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 05:57 PM
Aug 2025

The only refusals to complete my questionaire were African-Americans!

I had one woman literally chase me out of her yard. She came home while I was interviewing her husband and she threw a wall-eyed fit!
Another married couple got almost all the way through the questionaire and abruptly stopped and decided they "needed to think about it" .
I was interviewing a young man (anyone over 15 qualified to give me information) who was somewhat reticent. We had a lot of flexibility with hesitant people; we could use substitute names for example. So anyway we were almost finished when the parents came home. The first thing out of the father's mouth was " What did you tell them?" I had to explain how I structured the data for security and he calmed down. He was better after I told him it was just a head count.

On the other hand, not ONE Hispanic/Mexican/Latino person refused me. They would invite me in, give me water, answer all my questions and were very welcoming. One lady who did not speak English called the neighbor's daughter over to translate for us.

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