Bear Ribs
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Not really. "Are you a citizen?" in some form was included on most census forms in history, more often on the "long form" since normally, to save paperwork, the census sends a majority of the population a "short form" that basically just asks age, race, and sex and then every tenth home or so gets a more detailed "long form" with questions about income, citizenship, etc. and they extrapolate the the makeup of the population from that. It's certainly not unconstitutional to ask about citizenship else a solid 90% of all censuses were unconstitutional.Blatantly unconstitutional. The census is required to count the number of people in every state, not citizens (maybe a holdover from slavery? Idk).
Citizenship, the Census and Obama - FactCheck.org
Memes circulating online claim that former President Barack Obama removed the citizenship question from the 2010 census. He didn't. The citizenship question in 2010 was handled the same way it had been since 1970.
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