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Census numbers suggested 19 million white people disappeared from the US. Here’s what really happened

By Timothy P. Carney
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Census numbers suggested 19 million white people disappeared from the US. Here’s what really happened

The U.S. population increased by nearly 23 million over the past decade, according to the Census Bureau, yet the white population dropped by 19 million, and the non-Hispanic white population dropped by 5 million. It’s not that white people are shrinking as a percentage of the population, but the raw number of people counted as “white” has gone down by millions.

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