From the San Francisco Chronicle:
"The challenge is many Latinos understand themselves in racial terms instead of as an ethnic group," said Louis DeSipio, a professor of political science and Chicano studies at UC Irvine. "The Census Bureau is looking for simplification, which is appropriate, but ... has proposed to come up with a single question that forces respondents to think of themselves as a racial term, which some may not be comfortable with."

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