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So, if your main argument for the citizenship question is that we asked about citizenship before the 1960 Census, you’re relying on a completely flawed census paradigm.
(4) And if you’re relying on the appearance of citizenship questions on the sample surveys from 1970 onward as some kind of stamp of approval for their appearance on the 2020 head count form, you’re also on bad turf.
Citizenship questions have been confined strictly to the sample forms because the Bureau has long recognized that trying to assess everyone’s citizenship in times of hyper-xenophobic, anti-immigrant politics would destroy the count.
So, in conclusion, claims that the 2020 Census citizenship question is historically sound = BUNK
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