I am a white woman who worked for the US Census part-time for 4 weeks in the summer of 2020, going door to door to collect census data from folks who had not yet responded to the census. My experience was that white people were more willing to talk with me than people of color (POC.) It also seemed to me that white people were more comfortable and trusting of the federal govt than POC. It seems to me that there is typically less trust between whites and POC in Howard County.