The Left and its noble lies

2020 census showed massive spike in 'multiracial' population. Turns out that was likely bogus

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2020-census-showed-massive-spike-in-multiracial-population-turns-out-that-was-likely-bogus.

JOSEPH MACKINNON

JANUARY 14, 2025

Leftists and other race obsessives may have prematurely celebrated the 'nation's shifting mosaic' on the basis of bad data.

The 2020 U.S. census results indicated not only a decline in the white population but a massive spike in the multiracial population over the previous 10 years, stating that Americans identifying as more than one race accounted for 10.2% of the population, up from 2.9% in 2010.

While bureaucrats patted themselves on the back, expressing confidence in their findings and methodology, various academics, pundits, and liberal publications made hay of the results, sounding off about the "multiracial boom" and the "nation's changing mosaic."In some cases, there was outright celebration of the decline in the white population, euphemistically referred to as an increase in diversity — 24% of Democrats and Democratic leaners told Pew Research pollsters that this alleged demographic shift was a good thing.

It turns out the boom, still a crutch for liberal arguments years later, was likely bogus.

A pair of Princeton University sociologists noted in a December paper in the journal Sociological Science that "the boom was largely a statistical illusion resulting from methodological changes that confounded ancestry with identity and mistakenly equated national origin with race."