5-in-9 Hispanics, 6-in-10 Black Americans Support Citizenship Question on Census

The majority of Hispanic and black Americans support President Trump’s effort to ask all respondents on the 2020 Census whether or not they are an American citizen, a new poll finds.

The latest Harvard/Harris Poll reveals that a majority of five-in-nine Hispanic voters, or 55 percent, and nearly six-in-ten black American voters, or about 59 percent, said they support a question on the upcoming census that would ask U.S. residents whether they are American citizens or not.

Overall, about 67 percent of U.S. voters said the citizenship question should be on the Census, including 72 percent of white Americans, nearly nine-in-ten Republican voters, 63 percent of swing voters, and 64 percent to 69 percent of working class Americans.

Trump’s Commerce Department first announced last year that the American citizenship question would be put back on the Census for 2020, as Breitbart News noted. Since 1950, the citizenship question has not been asked on the full Census, leaving the nation without an exact estimate of how many citizens and how many non-citizens are in the country.

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