Demographic shifting

This chart blows my mind. In the decade since 2010, Latinx people in California apparently have undergone a major shift in how they choose to describe their ethic/racial identities according to the new census report.

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In 2010, offered the choice to identify simply as ethnically Hispanic/white as to race, that was by far the majority choice.

In 2020, a substantial majority, which must include many of the same individuals, chose ethnically Hispanic plus some other racial identity to describe themselves. 

White alone is out; racially mixed is in.

I guess that's what you get when you have lived with a racist President who says the racist part out loud. And when his cranky, bigoted white Republican party is doing its best to preserve white power. 

In California, where a very diverse society has arrived and more or less works, why not claim multiple identities if you live them? In other places where it is more rare to be Brown, is there more pressure and social reason to emphasize the white option?

Have to wonder though, does this Browning identity impulse leave the majority of the Black population, which has historical roots in slavery, out of the (happier) mix? It could. Our history is not good on this. It's been the rule that immigrant groups become "real Americans" when they adopt white supremacist attitudes. 

I don't want to go there.

H/t to @UrbFuturistDem who tweeted this and Noah Smith who passed it on.