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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue Aug 27, 2013, 01:32 PM Aug 2013

The Best Map Ever Made of America’s Racial Segregation

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/08/how-segregated-is-your-city-this-eye-opening-map-shows-you/?viewall=true

This map, created by Dustin Cable at University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, is the most comprehensive representation of racial distribution in America ever made. Here: New York City. Image: Dustin Cable White: blue dots; African American: green dots; Asian: red; Latino: orange; all others: brown



Detroit.



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The Best Map Ever Made of America’s Racial Segregation (Original Post) KamaAina Aug 2013 OP
Wow JustAnotherGen Aug 2013 #1
Looks bad, but safeinOhio Aug 2013 #2
the original source says "distribution". that has been altered by the secondary's biases nt msongs Aug 2013 #3
What I found most fascinating about this map Flying Squirrel Aug 2013 #4

safeinOhio

(32,676 posts)
2. Looks bad, but
Tue Aug 27, 2013, 02:45 PM
Aug 2013

that is not a map of Detroit. Everything north of 8 mile is not Detroit and the map leaves off half of Detroit, 5 mile and south.

Not that it is not bad, it's just not complete.

Detroit would get the help it needs if everyone south of 8 mile decided to move north.

 

Flying Squirrel

(3,041 posts)
4. What I found most fascinating about this map
Wed Aug 28, 2013, 03:09 AM
Aug 2013

was how people (of all races) tend to group themselves into communities about 10-18 miles apart from each other, like little beads on a spiderweb. You can see this especially in states such as Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and the surrounding states, at a zoom level about 2-3 in from the entire country view.

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