Demographics

I finally feel useful! The demographics portion of our experience seems to be tedious but very interesting to say the least. When visiting the basement of the library, I came across so many different categorizations of race and ethnicity adopted by our country for classification issues that I had previously known of, but just felt differently seeing it in front of me for the first time. I knew that actually interacting with these documents for the purpose of this class would be just as interesting; I may even get a bit aggravated.

The trends that we have noticed thus far were expected. The categorizations of what constituted minority groups shifted over time but nonetheless, kept Caucasians in larger numbers. We are still working on documenting information from each decade starting with 1940 so I believe that I will have more to say on the matter and our findings come the end of the week.