Charts Were Wrong About Racial Groups
* Your pie charts on foreign-born residents on pages A1 and A45 (Dec. 19) have a gross terminology error. There are three racial categories (black, Asian and white), but then there is another category (Latino) which in fact is almost entirely a sub-category of the “white” racial group.
By showing the pie chart the way it is, the impression is left that Latinos are some other race.
I’d strongly suggest changing the categories to include “Latino” and “non-Latino white” (or “other white”).
CARL OLSON
Northridge
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