political correctness moves on to new categories
you could, of course, return to a simple head count instead.
By BRENT STAPLES
There seems to be an emerging consensus that the system of racial classification that has dominated national politics and the census for nearly two centuries should be dropped altogether.
``I must give him his due. He has considerably cretinized me.'' Lautréamont
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