Posted on 01/13/2014 3:01:56 PM PST by lbryce
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.
White: blue dots; African American: green dots; Asian: red; Latino: orange; all others: brown
Last year, a pair of researchers from Duke University published a report with a bold title: “The End of the Segregated Century.” U.S. cities, the authors concluded, were less segregated in 2012 than they had been at any point since 1910. But less segregated does not necessarily mean integrated–something this incredible map makes clear in vivd color.
The map, created by Dustin Cable at University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, is stunningly comprehensive. Drawing on data from the 2010 U.S. Census, it shows one dot per person, color-coded by race. That’s 308,745,538 dots in all–around 7 GB of visual data. It isn’t the first map to show the country’s ethnic distribution, nor is it the first to show every single citizen, but it is the first to do both, making it the most comprehensive map of race in America ever created.
This is the most comprehensive map of race in America ever created.
White people are shown with blue dots; African-Americans with green; Asians with red; and Latinos with orange, with all other race categories from the Census represented by brown. Since the dots are smaller than pixels at most zoom levels, Cable assigned shades of color based on the multiple dots therein. From a distance, for example, certain neighborhoods will look purple, but zooming-in reveals a finer-grained breakdown of red and blue–or, really, black and white.
“There are a lot of moving parts in this process, so this can cause different shades of color to appear at different zoom levels in really dense areas, like you see in NYC,” Cable explains. “I played around with dot size and transparency for a while and settled on the current scheme as being adequate.” You can read more about Cable’s methodology here, but it comes down to this: When you’re dealing with 300 million dots at varying levels of zoom, getting the presentation just right is as much an art as a science.
Looking at the map, every city tells a different story. In California, for example, major cities aren’t just diverse, they’re integrated to a great degree, too. We see large swaths of Sacramento dotted variously with reds, blues, oranges, greens and browns. Los Angeles is more distinctly clustered, but groups still bleed into one another.
Click on the link to the site and explore the additional pages. To explore the map either click on the rectangular link colored red or the link posted below.
Shows not just ethnic distribution but overall population density as well — cool!
Thanks. I hope FReepers will find this useful in their research particularly in helping them with specific elections.
Someone should send it to the Black Pampers, Obama and MeCHA the next time they start agitating for a race war.
And to the GOP for that matter. Perhaps them more than anyone.
This is very interesting.
Sure is.
PFL
dayummmm.....and there I am! that’s so cool! they need to move my dot juuuuuust a bit more to the right, though. hahaha ;)
Fascinating - absolutely fascinating! I’m going to send a drilled-down screen capture of my area to blackpeoplemeet.com and ask them to take me off their mailing list because there AREN’T any black people around here!
:-)
It might help some plot a new home site too
I used a similar map to find my home. Oddly enough, crime in my area is very low.
I believe you. I am sure this info comes as a shock to everyone.
Bfl
Hey, I can see Annandale from here!
I see that I tend to vacation in areas with concentrations of Smurfs. But I guess when go fly-fishing on vacation that is to be expected.
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Thanks for posting. I love maps and this is a good one.
Even without the demographics I am struck by population density.
No wonder the Eastern seaboard is so liberal and messed up.
Darn it. They missed me.
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