Census Superintendent Robert Porter declared that the 1890 census's detailed figures on quadroons and octoroons "are of little value" and "misleading" as an indication of racial mixture.
Sources
- Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850-1930 (jlhochschild.scholars.harvard.edu)
- https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2015/06/11/chapter-1-race-and-multiracial-americans-in-the-u-s-census/ (pewresearch.org)
- https://www.npr.org/2017/12/13/568317026/negro-not-allowed-on-federal-forms-white-house-to-decide (npr.org)
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38413773_Racial_Reorganization_and_the_United_States_Census_1850-1930_Mulattoes_Half-Breeds_Mixed_Parentage_Hindoos_and_the_Mexican_Race (researchgate.net)
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