"they" were never ever going to let you leave… you should have known this by now
so why don't the states that want to… do their own census… after all they have the right to do it… then they can add the question to the state census… the reason for needing the knowledge is being able to provide adequate benefits such as snap medi-care whatever.. some states like mine have a mandatory balanced budget and would need this data for budgeting purposes… these would all be good arguments if challenged in courts