That’s the number of references to same-sex couples in the Census Bureau’s “Facts for Features” for Unmarried and Single Americans Week 2007 — or for 2006 or 2005, although this information was cited in the Facts for Features for 2004.
(The Facts for Features series is intended for media consumption, and “consist[s] of collections of statistics from the Census Bureau’s demographic and economic subject areas intended to commemorate anniversaries or observances or to provide background information for topics in the news.”)
It’s not terribly hard to find Census data sets that cite such same-sex information as gets reported (and of course, it’s surely underreported; I’m not convinced there are fewer gay people in Alabama and Utah, as the data suggest, but I guarantee you there are parts of the country where Sandy and I are Just Sisters when when passing through — not uncommon practice, either — and the residents may lie low, as well).
If you’d rather read a nicely-crunched assessment of this data, see this Census Bureau PowerPoint based on “American Community Survey Data,” which concludes:
Same-sex unmarried-partner households looked very similar to married-couple households except they had slightly more education and were less likely to have children in the household.
No wonder the gummint wants same-sex households edited out of the Official Story. It’s hard to get excited about the “defense of marriage” when the net impact of the Homosexual Agenda is to raise your property value.
Posted on this day, other years:
- "New MPOW" Search Not Working - 2005
- We're All Newbies Some of the Time - 2005
- Subject Searching: I Have an Answer - 2004
Or, perhaps, the gummint recognizes same-sex households as neither unmarried nor single households — considering them, by default, perhaps … married households?
Nah, that would be too refreshingly progressive…
That’s the alternate universe I wake up and realize I was dreaming about 🙂
Blaaaargh! Thanks for posting. Teresa and I get “sistered” too, although twice we’ve been mistaken for mother-daughter (and my father mistaken for my husband).
That mother-daughter thing has happened twice, and each time I lay very low afterwards…
Right on! I wanted to tell you, your post on “Don’t ask, don’t tell” inspired me to write a few congress people. That sets a destructive precedent for private industry. People don’t realize how it is not simple or useful for anyone to just hide an enormous part of your life. Thanks for blogging!
I like Peter Murray’s idea above, but nothing could be further from the truth. In fact the Census Bureau plans to CHANGE the data on legally married same sex couples to unmarried in Census 2010 and the ACS. Does anyone have a problem with changing legally true data to legally false data due to DOMA politics???
Susan, do you have a citation for that?