Timeline for Demographics: Were diseases the sole reason for the decrease in native Hawaiian population?
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| Jul 25, 2018 at 13:53 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | @ChrisHayes - What I did find was that in 2000 they changed the questions again to allow people to select more than one race. If you look at the curve, it looks like all the missing Native Hawaiians from 1960 reappeared that year as if they'd never been gone. | |
| Jul 25, 2018 at 13:01 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | @ChrisHayes - Yes! I spent some time yesterday researching the 1970 Census looking for something exactly like that (it sure looked like a data gathering anomoly), but failed. Thank you! | |
| Jul 25, 2018 at 6:50 | comment | added | Chris Hayes | Also of interest from another source is this census breakdown by age, which shows a much larger population drop in younger Native Hawaiians from 1960 to 1970. This may be caused by increased immigration rates to Hawaii following its statehood causing the birth of more part-Native Hawaiians, who were not reported as Hawaiian on that census. This fits with the effect being most dramatic in the youngest groups. (I have not independently verified this data, though.) | |
| Jul 25, 2018 at 6:46 | comment | added | Chris Hayes | @T.E.D. I found a report from the Hawaiian government which talks about this data and says "... the so-called paper genocide of the 1970s, when the Census categories changed from part and full Hawaiian to just Hawaiian. Many part Hawaiians chose to classify themselves as another ethnicity in that year, resulting in a dramatic and spurious decrease in the number of Native Hawaiians in the population." (Document page 9, PDF page 15.) Looks like a census quirk. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 19:45 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | Does your source go into what triggered the sharp drip from 1960 to 1970? | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 15:07 | history | edited | T.E.D.♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2018 at 14:55 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | @TNierath - I'm not having any trouble with it, but I've upvoted your comment to highlight the alternative link for anyone else having the same issue you're having. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 14:49 | history | edited | T.E.D.♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2018 at 14:47 | comment | added | T Nierath | Thank you, the link to the Schmidtt study PDF seems to be down, but archive.org has a link web.archive.org/web/20150412122653/http://www.ohadatabook.com/… | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 14:26 | history | answered | T.E.D.♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |