Who Wrote the Census Questionnaire?

I just completed the on-line 2020 census questionnaire. It’s very short centering on name, age and peculiarly, ethnicity of the occupants at my address.  My impression was the government wants to know your ethnicity in detail as most of the questions went to what country you or your ancestors came from. When asked your race, the secondary question was your “nationality”. If you selected “white”, the second question was from what ethnic group? Parenthetically they offered up several example European countries. Conspicuously missing was “American” as if, even if born here, you can’t consider yourself just American.

After the battle to ask a simple question like, “Are you an American citizen?”, I question the motives of those embedded in our government bureaucracy. It seems to me that those with a bent for a borderless America have their hands on the levers of power. Why all the questions about ethnicity? Aren’t there more important things to know about the people living at a particular address? How about asking if they receive any federal government benefit at that address? After all, the accompanying letter stresses the census determines how “billions of dollars in federal funds” will be directed. Very curious.

This “melting pot” experiment that has served the world so well seems to be heading back to tribalism. Are those behind (directing?) this effort using the tried and true method of divide and conquer? If so, they just pulled out another great tool from their arsenal.