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by dragonwriter 3996 days ago
> Sure, but that's couched in racist ideology: you are black (or non-white) if you have any fraction of not-white blood.

Only to the extent that present self-identification of people as non-whites is driven by their internalization of the one-drop rule, since these statistics, like most modern consideration of racial demographics, is driven by self-identification, not authoritarian ancenstry-tracing and application of the one-drop rule.

Though the "majority non-White" characterization does seem to be a mischaracterization of "majority non-(non-Hispanic White)" finding.