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It says 331.4 million but the census contains non citizens as per US law the census has to contain all non citizens so it should be changed to 320.5 million

In the opening paragraph it is stated that US federal law equates nationality with citizenship. This is not true as jus soli for American Samoan-born people only provides US nationality but not US citizenship. 2600:387:15:371A:0:0:0:8 (talk) 04:05, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The "US nationals" exception for American Samoa is addressed in the very next paragraph. The way the lead currently addresses the issue seems fine to me. CAVincent (talk) 05:10, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This article should be merged with Demographics of the United States? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States 208.73.92.94 (talk) 21:18, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Is there even an explanation for this suggestion? CAVincent (talk) 22:09, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]