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A Community-Based Study of the Census Undercount in a Racially Mixed Area
A Community-Based Study of the Census Undercount in a Racially Mixed Area
EV91-01
Introduction
The Alternative Enumeration (AE) which I conducted in Blocks 22, 51 and 52 in St. Louis was in a racially-mixed section (35 percent White, 63 percent Black, 2 percent other) of an otherwise predominantly Black neighborhood. These blocks lie north of a mainly White section of the district and intrude into a largely Black area. I attribute the racial mix partly to the fact that the blocks are in a ward that includes a predominantly White, independently incorporated city and are on the edge of a mostly Black ward in St. Louis.
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