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- From: renfro@geewhiz.ssc.gov (James Renfro)
- Subject: RE: Ethnicity & Soc.Secur.No.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.165000.24830@sunova.ssc.gov>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:50:00 GMT
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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.
- > I do know that the Social Security System has records to do
- such
- > encoding, they used to know about ethnicity before the various
- rules of the
- > 70s disallowed such mandatory questions.
- >
- > Rick Yukon, post-modern Spelunkerist
-
-
- I think is must be a coincidence. My SS number has 52 as its middle
- digits, and I am white, anglo-saxon, baptist, native born USA.
-
- Jim Renfro
-