{"id":7751,"date":"2020-03-21T14:06:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T21:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2020\/03\/21\/census-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-03-21T17:03:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T00:03:23","slug":"census-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2020\/03\/21\/census-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Census 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/census-2020.png' alt='Census 2020' width='250' class='right' \/>Well, the Census is behind us now, unless the .gov decides that our submitted inputs were deficient or something. We got our snail mail a couple of days ago inviting us to respond on-line with a twelve-character code that identifies our address. Once signed in, we answered the questions with a minimal amount of personal information disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>Just for the purposes of how this census compares with the past, I examined an old photocopy of the 1910 census taken in Los Angeles. Back then, government workers conducted the census door to door.<\/p>\n<p>Even back in 1910, the questions asked exceeded the original intent of the census which was to get a head count. There were personal information questions not necessarily pertinent to the original census intent. The headings below were on the 1910 census form:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Location (House No., etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Name<\/li>\n<li>Relationship to head of household<\/li>\n<li>Personal Description<\/li>\n<ol>\n<li>Sex<\/li>\n<li>Race<\/li>\n<li>Age<\/li>\n<li>Marital Status<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<li>Place of birth<\/li>\n<li>Father&#8217;s place of birth<\/li>\n<li>Mother&#8217;s place of birth<\/li>\n<li>Citizenship (immigrants and whether naturalized)<\/li>\n<li>Language spoken<\/li>\n<li>Occupation<\/li>\n<ol>\n<li>Trade (job title)<\/li>\n<li>Nature of business<\/li>\n<li>Employee or employer status<\/li>\n<li>Tenure<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<li>Education level<\/li>\n<li>Owner or renter at residence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The one glaring item in the 1910 census omitted from the 2020 census was that of citizenship. Does this mean that NON-citizens who answer the census are included in the head count for determination of congressional districts and number of representatives in government? If so, THAT IS A VERY BAD THING, and not what the founders intended!<\/p>\n<p>The following link is to an image of the referenced 1910 census for a portion of a precinct of Los Angeles, CA. I intentionally left it as a very large image which you will need to scroll about to see the various entries. <a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/19100419-census-margaret-george-john.jpg' title='1910 LA Census'>1910 LA Census<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Census is behind us now, unless the .gov decides that our submitted inputs were deficient or something. We got our snail mail a couple&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beltway-kabuki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}