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Re:The US Census now has an API by tantalor on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @06:19PM (#4076502)
I also found this odd, but I can think of two reasons,

1. CSV is not a single well-defined format. Some people use rfc4180, but not everybody does.

2. JSON is easier to parse than CSV for JavaScript clients, i.e., browsers. On the other hand, JSON is not a subset of JavaScript.

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