In March 2024 the federal government finalized the biggest change to its race and ethnicity standards since 1997, and NBC asks the question our families care about most: will letting people choose Hispanic within one combined question actually identify Latinos better? The piece explains why the old two-part format failed people whose identity is mixed, or simply Hispanic, and it surfaces a startling practice: respondents who chose Some Other Race used to be assigned a race by the bureau afterward. The boxes are finally changing.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latinos-views-on-making-hispanic-a-race-category-rcna147172