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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the first US census only had two racial categories: "Caucasian" & "Other". (Caucasian was later changed to White, when Indians -- from India, not Native Americans -- said they were Caucasian too).
And it used to be in the US that if you had one drop of black (Negro, at that time) blood in your body, you were legally black (and certainly not White). The laws may have changed, but ways of thinking change less easily.
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