Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Interesting effort to quantify “passing” in the pre-WWII era using linked Census data. Finding is that it was more common than you might think. https://t.co/PrRFuRxBjw — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

In table form ... fairly common for a person who is Black in one Census to be white in the next. Even more common for Native American. Almost all switching is in the direction of whiteness. Lack of intra-Asian switching suggests this is not confusion by the enumerator. https://t.co/vxVDiaxteI — PolitiTweet.org