Friday, August 12, 2005

major major minor minor

This nyt piece is full of the most surreal phrases.

"In California, state officials said minorities had accounted for more than half of the population since 1998, and the Census Bureau said they now made up 55.5 percent of the total."

I'm sure eventually they'll stop using the statistically-incorrect "minorities" and get around to saying what they mean: non-whites. or maybe in census parlance: non-"non hispanic whites".

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