In the US, the gap between Black and White Homeownership is widening with each generation [OC]MinutPop t1_j9symez wrote
Reply to comment by ad-lapidem in In the US, the gap between Black and White Homeownership is widening with each generation [OC] by Apartment_List
The US gov has a strange definition of race.. White could mean anyone who is not African or Asian.. I wonder what that chart would look like if you consider all the groups within this “white” collection, for example: Germanic, Slavic, Roman, Norse, Berber, Arab & Turkic
ad-lapidem t1_j9thjnz wrote
All racial categories are social/political, not scientific, as the Census itself is careful to observe. Labels and self identification change over time as well.
MinutPop t1_j9tlngw wrote
So why clump together everything that is not asian or african? And have separate categories for those? 🤷♂️
ad-lapidem t1_j9tq5jz wrote
You're asking why an arbitrary definition is arbitrary in a certain way and not another? Ask the OMB.
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