Consider MENA as alt. compare pop. for CAWP

[benhammondmusic]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We need a population percent share to show on the comparison bar chart, and also to be able to calculate the pct_relative_inequity for the inequities over time chart. We currently do not have this data for one of the CAWP race/ethnicity groups: MENA / Middle Eastern & North African. There has been ongoing discussion at the US Census regarding adding "MENA" as a unique classification, but for now and for over a century they've been counted as "White".

We should address this gap in the data and the call to action to fix it (by adding MENA to the census)

Meanwhile, we have the potential opportunity to provide a comparison population nationally and by state for MENA by using the "ancestry" section of the US Census. This seems to be done by several sources including this article from MigrationPolicy.org. In that article they describe the standardized countries they aggregate for MENA:

In keeping with the definition used by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), this Spotlight defines the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco (and Western Sahara), Occupied Palestinian Territories, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. It is not possible to identify all countries of birth in the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). Some responses fall into general categories (e.g., Tunisia and Western Sahara are grouped together under the category "Northern Africa, not elsewhere classified"), and some immigrants list "Asia, nec/ns" as their birthplace.

The US Census 2019 ACS Ancestry data, to the state level, is here: https://data.census.gov/table?q=B04006:+PEOPLE+REPORTING+ANCESTRY&g=0100000US,$0400000&tid=ACSDT5Y2019.B04006&moe=false

Describe the solution you'd like

• address the lack of population data in FRONTEND: Adds CAWP CONGRESS time-series chart(s) #1894 in an alert
• incorporate a call to action, like a link to an org working on this data equity issue
• consider presenting ancestry figures as an alt. pop. comparison data