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Article: A New Look at the Hispanic Population of the United States in 1910.
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- Historical Methods
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Until recent censuses asked and tabulated an explicit question about Hispanic identity, the Hispanic population of the United States remained something of a mystery. The question of how many q there were in the United States before 1960 is not easily answered. More specific information about the age and sex structure, the geographic distribution of the population, or the distribution of the immigrant and the native-born populations, among many examples, are difficult to obtain with any precision.
In this article, we describe for the first time the results of a successful effort to obtain much higher quality data about the Hispanic population of the United States ...