I don’t have any statistics to back up my point, but I’m guessing that Latinos are underrepresented in the 2000 census. I imagine that they, along with certain Asian communities, are the hardest to count because of language barriers and also non-compliance. Legal immigrants may be living with illegal immigrants, for example, or there may just be distrust that prevents a certain percentage of Latinos from filling out the forms. People may not realize it, but the Commerce Department is responsible for the doing the 2010 census. The fact that Bill Richardson will be the head of the Commerce Department is a good sign for assuring that the Latino community is fully accounted for in the new census.
