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.

What’s going on here?

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