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**SOLUTION**

I disabled my functions.php and the issue went away. I has added the following code

remove_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' );
add_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' , 99);

per http://www.mstoicthemes.com/disable-wpautop-shortcodes/ in order to try to eliminate an issue I was having with extra line breaks appearing in a shortcode a plugin was generating.

It seems moving wpautop that late made it add <br /> between fields in my registration plugin.

Eliminating the wpautop filter delay fixed my problem.