Guests: Jorge Del Pinal
Assistant Chief of the Census Bureau's Population Division
Tom Brunell
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY-Binghamton)
Cecilia Munoz
Vice President of Research, Advocacy & Legislation for The National Council of La Raza
Maynard Jackson
Founder and Chair, Special Committee on the Census Undercount of the U.S. Conference of Mayors
Former Mayor of Atlanta (1974-1982 and again from 1990-1994)
National Development Chairman, Democratic National Committee
Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson
Democratic Congresswoman from Texas
Chair, Congressional Black Caucus
The new census numbers show Hispanics may have vaulted into first place and displaced blacks as the leading minority group. Those figures are not final, but one thing is clear, they won't be adjusted to take into account the more than 3 million people estimated to have been counted. Join Juan Williams and guests for a look at the new demographics and the politics of census sampling.
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