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2023-05-05 02:15:44 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

The 1950 census did not differentiate between Hispanics and whites while the 2020 one did. The comparable combined Latino/white proportion of California’s population in 2021 is 74%. https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/race/MREAD_1790_2010.html https://www.statista.com/statistics/306026/california-population-ethnicity-race/ There are over 4 million more white Californians today than there were in 1950. https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/content/pubs/jtf/JTF_PopulationJTF.pdf

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• The 1950 census did not differentiate between Hispanics and whites while the 2020 one did. The comparable combined Latino/white proportion of California’s population in 2021 is 74%. https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/race/MREAD_1790_2010.html https://www.statista.com/statistics/306026/california-population-ethnicity-race/ There are over 4 million more white Californians today than there were in 1950. https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/content/pubs/jtf/JTF_PopulationJTF.pdf