Maps that show the racial breakdown of America’s biggest cities

[n2doc]

By DAVID GARDNER
Last updated at 5:49 PM on 25th September 2010

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These are the maps that show the racial breakdown of America’s biggest cities.
Using information from the latest U.S. census results, the maps show the extent to which America has blended together the races in the nation’s 40 largest cities.
With one dot equalling 25 people, digital cartographer Eric Fischer then colour-coded them based on race, with whites represented by pink, blacks by blue, Hispanic by orange and Asians by green.
The resulting maps may not represent what many might expect Barack Obama’s integrated rainbow nation to look like, as many cities have clear racial dividing lines.


Detroit: Red represents White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot represents 25 people


New York: The dots are so dense they almost cannot help but be separated - yet the Big Apple still has clear pockets of ethnicity

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315078/Race-maps-America.html

[NYC_SKP]

1. "may not represent what many might expect Barack Obama’s integrated rainbow nation..."

:wtf:

The author of that otherwise interesting article with VERY cool demographic dot maps is off his rocker with that one line.

It seems to suggest that everyone should have up and changed jobs and moved all around to become racially homogenous in less than two years, and that President Obama has somehow failed because this hasn't happened.

Or am I just being hyper-sensitive.

Great maps, inane author at the source link.

Thanks for posting the article and maps.

:hi:

[n2doc]

2. agree with you

The author obviously has never spent time in the us. But I find the maps interesting!

[NYC_SKP]

3. LOL at Upper East Side, Manhattan.

I never cared for it up there, lived my NYC years downtown right where the green, brown, and red dots kind of converge at Cooper Union, Thompkins Square.

:hi:

Kick and Rec.

:kick:

[Sparkly]

4. That's really fascinating.

Thanks for posting it.

[XemaSab]

5. Surprising that the Bay Area is so blended

That's also the only area shown in the article with big green areas.

[XemaSab]

6. And from the Seattle weekly blogs

Seattle was one of 40 cities Fischer mapped. Blue is black, green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic and each dot represents 25 people, according to the 2000 census. Oh, and if you don't know what the little red dots represent, um, just look around you.

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/09/where_you_live_in_seattle_if_y.php

[AspenRose]

7. I find the comments on the article disturbing

"That's not segregation! This only means people want to be with their own kind"

:puke:

[Cirque du So-What]

9. I read that post

Made, ironically, by one B J Deller, who posts from Malaga, Spain :eyes:

Unless he's a Spaniard with a very unusual surname, I guess he's spending his days 'wanting to be with his own kind.'

[petronius]

8. That's an extremely interesting project. Think I'll bookmark this

for my GIS classes...

Thanks for the link!

[Odin2005]

10. Ugh, check out the segregationist comments at the link!

:puke: