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Originally Posted by greytone
The Constitutional reason d'etre of the census is to determine congressional representation. That is based on population of citizens only. Race should play no role. All the other questions serve to support actions of the government that by their very nature bend or violate the Tenth Amendment. I do have a very childish (literal) view of the greatest social contract and political document in the history of the human race, and I am kind of proud of that.
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Your view is more literal than some of the framers of that social contract/political document who were the first to expand the census beyond a simple numbers count.
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But...I dont want to turn this general discussion/poll of individual member's response to the Census into a political discussion.
I would suggest this thread if you want to take that discussion further:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/tilted-...59-census.html