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To: FreedomFriend
1990
Beige 0.0%-16.6% Hispanic
Yellow 16.7%-33.2% Hispanic
Green-Yellow- 33.4%-53.0% Hispanic
Olive Green- 53.3%-75.2% Hispanic
Forest Green- 75.5%-100.0% Hispanic

2000
Beige 0.0%-18.5% Hispanic
Yellow 18.6%-36.2% Hispanic
Green-Yellow 36.3%-55.6% Hispanic
Olive Green 55.7%-76.4% Hispanic
Forest Green 76.4%-98.4% Hispanic

But, the MAPS would look different if the PERCENTAGES HAD NOT CHANGED BETWEEN YEARS!!!!!

The population DENSITY could have grown in a decade and the MAPS would look EXACTLY the same!!!!!

The EYES make the judgement call in this thread - NOT the brain in calculating the data.........

Just like the colors on a weather MAP show rain density, really bad weather could be made to LOOK less severe by shifting the color change breakpoints on the intensity scale!
6 posted on 08/24/2002 6:46:26 AM PDT by Elsie
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To: Elsie
No, the brain and the eyes make the call. For some reason, some of the pictures are not showing up. I'll try to repost them.

The facts are that these are census tracts. If all the pictures are up, you can clearly see that some Census Tracts were in the beige or yellow colors in 1990, and ten years later the same tracts were in the yellow, yellow-green or olive green colors. Many of them have not grown in population, as their size has stayed the same. On the other hand, those areas where they have received more people in that ten year span reveal that the newcomers to those particular areas were primarily Hispanic. Thus, whether other groups fled or not really doesn't matter, as the Hispanic population percentage would go up either way. You can also see how many tracts were broken into two or three, particularly around Central Los Angeles. This represents a huge increase in population, and you'll also see that nearly zero of the tracts have turned in the direction of Hispanic to Non-Hispanic. Thus, with smaller tracts and increased percentages, this reveals that not only is the Hispanic population percentage increasing, but the shear numbers are huge.

10 posted on 08/24/2002 9:24:57 AM PDT by FreedomFriend
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