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- From: bill.duetschler@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Bill Duetschler)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Ethnicity & Soc.Secur.No.
- Message-ID: <3914.55.uupcb@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 19:48:00 GMT
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- Organization: HAL 9000 BBS, W-NET HQ, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Reply-To: bill.duetschler@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Bill Duetschler)
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- < > 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.
-
- My middle two digits are -72-. My father is Swiss (Calvinist) and my
- mother is German (Lutheran). I was born in the US. I am white. Go
- figure. Of course, my number was assigned in the mid-70s, so I may be
- young enough to have missed these shenanigans.
-
- Bill "Sounds like it might be Jewish but it isn't" Duetschler
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