Reply #90: The Census misses many of these folks

[Tsiyu]

I did address canvassing here for 2010. I'm a little bitty thing and most of the men here are kind toward women, so I was never really afraid. What i did learn is that the US Govt had no idea where all these people were.

The roads they put on my mapspotter were all screwed up (i especially loved how they turned every place named for the Poplar tree into "popular" ) and I had to redraw many roads.

You would not believe how many people told me that in all the years they had been alive, they had never filled out the Census. And honestly, there were places i could not get to in my little car, though I tried to note their general location.

I am sure most outsiders would be scared to death to come up here so they probably just made the numbers up or just didn't count them. So I would say we really don't get an accurate assessment of just how many people live in shacks, old travel trailers and caves.

To reiterate the above...these are the most beautiful people I know...white, black, cherokee whatever. They have a purity of heart that you just don't find in many places in America.

They don't deserve the hard lives they lead - not with the GDP the US has....