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🗓️ 1 July 2025
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Every ten years, the United States conducts the census, a crucial survey of the country’s population meant to help Uncle Sam figure out how to plan infrastructure and distribute funding over the coming decade. In recent years, people have argued for and against including a question about citizenship on the census for any number of reasons ... including accusations of conspiracy. Tune in to learn more.
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0:00.0 | Fellow conspiracy realist, we are returning to you with an episode that we discussed a bit off air back in 2020. |
0:09.0 | As we all recall, there was a bit of a hubbub, a hullabaloo, a kerfuffle of sorts regarding the concept of U.S. citizenship and the concept of a crazy but important thing the country does called the census. |
0:27.6 | Y'all, did when you took like civics, I guess is what they would typically call it in school. |
0:31.5 | Did they ever call it citizenship for you? |
0:34.1 | That was what it was called in my upbringing and my schooling. |
0:36.9 | I thought that was interesting. What do you mean? What class? The class was called in my upbringing in my schooling thought that was interesting what do you |
0:38.5 | mean what class the class was called citizenship instead of like civics or yeah it was just called |
0:44.5 | citizenship interesting which is a little bit politically loaded if you think about it right it's interesting |
0:50.1 | this was augusta georgia yeah it wasa, Georgia, yeah, at a magnet school. |
0:54.8 | They did do a lot of their own curriculum that was maybe a little bit different than what the state required. |
0:59.3 | But I don't know that I've ever heard of anywhere else that called those types of classes citizenship. |
1:03.7 | They're usually just like government or civics. |
1:07.0 | It'd be fascinating to learn who was on the school board at the time that you took that class. |
1:14.3 | We know that the census is, all right, so every so often, the United States, at least used to be, |
1:23.7 | it would put a great deal of effort into figuring out the demographics of every person in the country. |
1:34.2 | Kind of the Nielsen's rating system of America, like, you know, of the population. |
1:40.1 | Because it's imperfect. |
1:41.8 | Yeah, and a good gig, you can get it as temporary employment. |
1:46.1 | This became a measure of controversy back in 2020 when we were exploring concerns about, like, |
1:59.1 | valid questions a lot of people in the country had about whether or not |
2:04.0 | agreeing to participate in the census would have implications for your legal status down the |
2:12.5 | road and and to be clear matt kn, and yours truly are not profits. |
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