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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gerski.

Thank you guys for being here.

We have so much to go over today.

It's a little crazy.

But I want to first point out some interesting data that no one has covered.

The census, obviously, a lot of people cover the census data.

The data came out that birth rates at a low point.

In 2025, there were 3.60 million births compared to 3.62 million in the year prior.

A lot of people covered that.

And it's a big downward slide, especially in the last 10 years when there was nearly 4 million births.

But a question I keep getting in my inbox and on social

media is, especially when they term biracial, right, by racial births. People really want to know

what does that mean as far as, you know, is it a white mother, a black father, an Asian father,

or, you know, a Hispanic mother. What is the, what's the combination? People are very,

very curious. I keep getting these answers. And that's it, that's very difficult to break down

because there's a lot of unknowns. And also, race is both a science and a social construct, right?

Like, I have friends who have partners. My friend will be white, their partner will be half

white, half Asian, or Latino or Latino and a white combination.

And the child comes out with blonde hair and blue eyes.

And they classify themselves as white.

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