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At least most Americans are

artappraiser — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 15:40:34 +0000

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At least most Americans are not as creepy as politicians are https://t.co/XTfKdjpAZ4 pic.twitter.com/F6KeQa6OAn
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) September 28, 2021

A cynical mind might theorize

artappraiser — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 22:55:35 +0000

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A cynical mind might theorize that all this emphasis on ‘LatinX’ and fabricated race essentialism around Hispanics is a desperate reaction to their lightning-fast assimilation to the US mainstream, and thus not another minority bloc to add to the going coalition. https://t.co/cfVkbQaP9p
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) September 25, 2021

Jews now have something like

artappraiser — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 22:53:53 +0000

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Jews now have something like a 70% outmarriage rate, but it was very low back in the 1940s. Italians outmarried a bit faster, but similar story there. Hispanics and Asians are outmarrying at ~40% rates in the 2nd generation, which is about a generation faster than earlier groups.
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) September 25, 2021

Huge jump for Black Americans, and slight decline for Asians… any theories?
— ferg (@sincerelyzoomer) September 25, 2021

For Asians it's just gonna be a composition effect from increased Asian immigration.
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) September 25, 2021

Jews makes sense given the cultural bias against intermarriage predating immigration to the US
— Donkey Katz, Esquiggle (@KatzD) September 25, 2021

And the fact that religions have a social cohesion that races usually don't
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) September 25, 2021

Is the full "matrix" available?
— Christopher Silvia (@ChristoSilvia) September 25, 2021

Yeah but you have to dig through the ACS
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) September 25, 2021