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What's good, y'all? You're listening to CODE SWITCH. I'm Gene Demby, and joining us today is our play cousin, Hansi

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Lo Wang. He's NPR's resident census expert. He's a correspondent on NPR's Washington Desk. He's a South Philly native like myself. Oh, yeah, and he's also a CODE SWITCH alum. H.L. Dubs, what's good with you, man?

HANSI LO WANG, BYLINE: How you doing? It has been too long.

DEMBY: Too long. All right, Hansi, so whenever you come on to the podcast, you always bring us some story from census land that is low-key terrifying.

WANG: That is my brand.

DEMBY: So are you about to tell us something really unsettling right now?

WANG: Well, I mean, let's see.

DEMBY: (Sighing) OK. Here we go.

WANG: Let me introduce everyone first to this Louisianan.

RAINA DAVID: My name is Raina David (ph), and I live in New Orleans, La.

WANG: Raina's an artist.

DAVID: I'm into fashion. I do quilts, and I'm a painter artist. I mean, I'm scattered all over the place when it comes to creativity.

WANG: And she, her husband and their children have lived in New Orleans for decades. Raina is Garifuna.

DEMBY: Oh, yeah. The Garifuna have a fascinating history. It traces all way back to the 1600s, I think.

WANG: Yeah, that's what Raina said. You know, there were African people who were being brought to the Caribbean by slave traders. But...

DAVID: There was a shipwreck near the Saint Vincent island.

WANG: And some of those Africans survived, and they started families with the Indigenous people who were living on the island. And over time, their descendants and those of other African people who escaped slavery, they formed new communities.

DEMBY: Yeah, today there are Garifuna communities all over Central America and the Caribbean. They have their own language, although many Garifuna speak Spanish. So, Hansi, you are the census expert. I got to ask you. Do you know how Raina fills out her census form?

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