If the report on college racial classifications that Roger referred to earlier (see the report itself here) is any indication, the wall of separation between race and state is being built from the ground up. The report found that in the campuses it examined, the race of up to one-third of students was “unknown” because the student left the box blank or checked more than one category or “other”. Nationwide the figure doubled during the 1990s to 6 percent. This monkey-wrenching of the race system can be accelerated if more people do this by checking “other” and writing “American” whenever they’re asked these questions. The brass ring would be 2010 census, whose race/ethnic data could be rendered useless if enough talk-show hosts, campus groups, and others took up the cause.