Painting By Numbers

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The 2020 census data is finally here! At first glance, it paints a surprising portrait of a changing United States: The number of people who identify as white and no other race is smaller; the share of multiracial people has shot up; and the country's second-largest racial group is... "some other race." But resident census-expert Hansi Lo Wang told us that when you start to unpack the data, you quickly find that those numbers don't tell the whole story.

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0:00.0	Let's get y'all, this is Gene.
0:01.6	Popping in before the show to just let y'all know
0:03.6	that we are searching for the next toast
0:05.9	of the Coast Witch podcast.
0:07.4	Someone to come join us in the other host chair,
0:09.8	you know, we're looking for someone thoughtful
0:11.8	and funny and collaborative and weird, frankly,
0:15.0	who's down to come tell some really fascinating stories
0:17.6	about race and identity with us.
0:20.1	If you think that might be you,
0:22.9	or your cousin or somebody you know,
0:24.4	get your applications in soon,
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0:29.8	There's some information there about the posting,
0:31.5	on our blog, all right?
0:34.7	On to the show.
0:41.4	What's good, y'all?
0:42.3	You're listening to Coast Witch from mpr.
0:44.4	I'm Gene Demby.
0:47.2	During the existential sinkhole of 2020,
0:50.4	if we can call it that, when it felt like, you know,
0:52.8	the world was coming undone,
	...

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