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Glenn Grothman: “It seems like we're trying to create this idea in which…”

Featuring: Glenn Grothman, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, District 6

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What Difference Does It Make If I'm 1/8th Polish?': Grothman Grills Director About Census Questions

Published | Video Starts at 05:37

I would think the vast majority of people today say in Wisconsin, a lot of Polish people probably immigrated here six generations ago. I don't think it has anything to do with anything. But nevertheless, It seems like we're trying to create this idea in which forever, like my colleague over here, forever identify by an ethnic group, which is kind of a dangerous thing. And people who want to, I think, destroy the country like this idea of forever people around hanging with this ethnic group, even though until they took ancestry tests, they might even know they had any of this ethnic group in them. (05:37–05:48)

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Asserts that identifying people permanently by ethnic group is dangerous.

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