Ultimately to sabotage the census
Sigh.
Sanders says a citizenship question has been on every census since 1965.
Citizenship hasn’t been questioned on a decennial census since 1950: https://t.co/xwx10yrUeH pic.twitter.com/siAIF8lCIk
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 27, 2018
That’s an enormous lie on a very important subject. (Also why cite 1965 when the census is every ten years on the tenth year? There was no census in 1965, they were 1960 and 1970. As Kyle Griffin says: the census is decennial.)
Maybe it’s not a lie but an Honest Mistake, but it’s her job not to make howlers like that. But it was probably a lie, probably by whatever quisling briefed her.
She also said the question was “necessary for the Department of Justice to protect voters, specifically to help us better comply with the Voting Rights Act.”
But Vanita Gupta, who led the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division under President Barack Obama and is now president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, told me recently, “Voting rights enforcement has never depended on having that question on the [census] form since the enactment of the Voting Rights Act. That’s plainly a ruse to collect that data and ultimately to sabotage the census.”
To scare away the pesky brown foreigners.
She’s overall still a liar, but on this particular issue it’s more nuanced.
Through 2010, there was a short form census and a long form census, and the long form had citizenship questions.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/democrats-vow-fight-trump-administration-over-census-citizenship-question-n860341
About 1/6 of the people got the long form. In 2010 the long form was eliminated.
(No idea what 1965 has to do with anything, though it would be a weird thing to just make up. Maybe the year some decision on questions was made?)
Tried to find what 1965 referred to and failed.
In a strange coincidence, there were hearings on having mid-decade censuses. And those hearings took place in…1965:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4018515;view=1up;seq=9;skin=mobile
It ultimately went nowhere though.
Wasn’t 1965 at least in the approximate era of civil rights upheaval? Might be a factor.
But SHhhS was probably not even born then and may view the whole thing as ancient myth and optional anyway. She is homeschooled, right?