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• Jermanator Senior Member Posts: 16,131 Senior Member

  February 2019 #32

  That is exactly what it has become these days.
  

  Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

  -Thomas Paine

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• tennmike Senior Member Posts: 27,444 Senior Member

  February 2019 edited February 2019 #33

  Here's the 1790 Census if anyone is interested.

  
  

  https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1790/number_of_persons/1790a-02.pdf

  
  

  1790 to 2010 Census docs for those interested.

  
  

  https://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html

  
  

  1960 census has some interesting questions:

  
  

  https://www.census.gov/library/photos/1970b.html
  

  
  
  
  

    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
  ― Douglas Adams
  

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• tennmike Senior Member Posts: 27,444 Senior Member

  February 2019 #34

  https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/1980_long_questionnaire.pdf

  
  

  Page 6 might be of interest to some. Question 12 in particular.
  

  
  

    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
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• zorba Senior Member Posts: 23,846 Senior Member

  February 2019 #35

  das68 said:

  bisley said:

    He loitered about for a few minutes, then got back into his electric car and left. That was approximately 2011, and I haven't heard from him since.
  

  he's not got back to his office yet
  
  
  

  There's a picture of said electric car in a different thread here...
  

  -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
  
  "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
  

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• Gila Posts: 1,828 Senior Member

  February 2019 #36

  tennmike said:

  https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/1980_long_questionnaire.pdf

  
  

  Page 6 might be of interest to some. Question 12 in particular.
  

  
  

  It's my understanding the question was taken off of the short form, or maybe the only form at the time, in 1950.  The latest rumor I've heard is that this issue will go to the Supreme Court.
  

  No good deed goes unpunished...
  

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• RugerFan Senior Member Posts: 2,365 Senior Member

  February 2019 #37

  I read today that the SC will hear the case in April

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