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Jun 27 2009, Marco Villa

The Census is one of those all American rituals like barbecues on the Fourth of July or blaming fretting that some new group or foreigners is plotting to take over the country [your pick: Arabs, Chinese, Japanese, ect...].

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Efrain Escobedo, senior director of civic engagement for the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO), poses at NALEO headquarters in Los Angeles on Friday, March 13, 2009. Speaking about the organization’s plans for the 2010 Census,...