The census you link is from the current admin and I was shocked to see it written that way. I don't think it's right or normal at all and I don't agree that this was standard practice prior to this admin.
> I don't think it's right or normal at all and I don't agree that this was standard practice prior to this admin.
It's normal (the basic structure has been used since 1980), though there was a proposal which didn't end up being used to consolidate the race and Hispanic origin questions for 2020.
> The 2010 US Census included changes designed to more clearly distinguish Hispanic ethnicity as not being a race. That included adding the sentence: "For this census, Hispanic origins are not races."
Government forms should simply ask about ethnicity, not race, and certainly shouldn't be asking both. I don't see why anyone who isn't racist would object to that. You can definitively call someone racist for listing ethnicities as different races.
