The ‘Rise’ of Multiracials?
Did America’s multiracial population really quadruple in ten years? This Russell Sage Foundation journal article gives the careful scholarly answer: the growth is real, but most of the 2020 spike came from the Census Bureau finally reading what people actually wrote in, a change that produced a sevenfold rise in multiracial identification among Hispanics. The mixture was always there; the instrument finally read it. For our readers this is the deep answer to a fair question, and it confirms the thesis this site was founded on. When someone asks whether the boom is real, send them here.