...when it comes to keeping racial statistics, the nation is in transition, moving, often without uniformity, from the old “mark one box” limit to allowing citizens to check as many boxes as their backgrounds demand. Changes in how Americans are counted by race and ethnicity are meant to improve the precision with which the nation’s growing diversity is gauged: the number of mixed-race Americans, for example, is rising rapidly, largely because of increases in immigration and intermarriage in the past two decades. (One in seven new marriages is now interracial or interethnic.)
via Counting Mixed-Race America Grows Ever More Complex - NYTimes.com.
Getting harder to pigeon-hole race. This is a problem for the quota-mongers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
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