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"white alone" includes Hispanic. You need to read "white alone, not Hispanic". Anyway, going by https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanmateocountycal

"white alone" includes Hispanic. You need to read "white alone, not Hispanic". Anyway, going by https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanmateocountycalifornia/PST045217 https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanmateocountyc... San Mateo County is: 40% white alone 29% Asian alone From that data alone, whites could actually be more over-represented than Asians. (I stress could because you need per-site info to conclude anything) Regardless, I don't see evidence that whites are underrepresented.

whatyoucantsay 9y ago
San Mateo County is small enough to be distorted by the effects of the very kind of discriminatory hiring the article is about. Based upon the rapid downvoting, I'll work off the premise that I misread the statistics and ask for clarification: Which group of people does the "76.9% of US population - White alone" statistic refer to? The San Mateo numbers in the link you shared say: 24.8% Hispanic or Latino 39.8% White alone, not Hispanic 61.4% White alone Does this mean that the vast majority of Hispanics in the county are also in the "white alone" category? This would be clearer if race were one category and "household language" were a completely separate one. :/
- usaar333 9y ago
  > Which group of people does the "76.9% of US population - White alone" statistic refer to? This is defined in the footing - hispanic is not a race https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045217#qf-headnote-a https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045217#qf... > Does this mean that the vast majority of Hispanics in the county are also in the "white alone" category? Yes > San Mateo County is small enough to be distorted by the effects of the very kind of discriminatory hiring the article is about. Possible, but you'd need more evidence to make this claim. SF and Santa Clara have similar demographics; that's nearly 4M people across these 3 counties.

whatyoucantsay 9y ago

San Mateo County is small enough to be distorted by the effects of the very kind of discriminatory hiring the article is about. Based upon the rapid downvoting, I'll work off the premise that I misread the statistics and ask for clarification: Which group of people does the "76.9% of US population - White alone" statistic refer to? The San Mateo numbers in the link you shared say: 24.8% Hispanic or Latino 39.8% White alone, not Hispanic 61.4% White alone Does this mean that the vast majority of Hispanics in the county are also in the "white alone" category? This would be clearer if race were one category and "household language" were a completely separate one. :/

usaar333 9y ago
> Which group of people does the "76.9% of US population - White alone" statistic refer to? This is defined in the footing - hispanic is not a race https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045217#qf-headnote-a https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045217#qf... > Does this mean that the vast majority of Hispanics in the county are also in the "white alone" category? Yes > San Mateo County is small enough to be distorted by the effects of the very kind of discriminatory hiring the article is about. Possible, but you'd need more evidence to make this claim. SF and Santa Clara have similar demographics; that's nearly 4M people across these 3 counties.