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- From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: Ethnicity & Soc.Secur.No.
- Message-ID: <Bzv676.CyK@polaris.async.vt.edu>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 11:21:05 GMT
- References: <92360.195253MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)
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- In article <92360.195253MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET writes:
- >The story I heard is that the 1950s era government rigged the social security
- >system so that any government agent or knowledgeable employer or banker could
- >tell the ethnicity of someone by the middle two numbers. An -06-, -52-, -32-,
- >-12- or any other EVEN middle number belongs to Blacks, Hispanics, Jews,
- >Asians, etc. Any ODD middle number (e.g. -67-, -43-, -07-) shows its owner
- >to be a WASP of reasonably pure upbringing.
- > I asked around and could find very few odd middle numbers. My results:
- >
- > * EVERY even-numbered peson was either, Black, Hispanic, Jewish, Asian,
- > Roman Catholic, Greek, or other Eastern European.
- > * EVERY odd-numbered person I found was white. A few were half Jewish
- > or half Roman Catholic.
- >
- > Coincidence or not, I would like to know what other people have
- >found about this and the results of their informal surveys.
-
- Sorry, pal, but my middle number is 76 and my family is white protestants
- from northern and western Europe as far back as 1742.
-
- Joel "Funny how that works" Furr
- jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
-