America is known as the Great Melting Pot. But a closer look at census data shows we're a lot closer to a dinner plate with the peas here, carrots here, potatoes here, and steak over there. In other words, a very high level of racial segregation. This cool series of maps was produced by Eric Fischer, based on a map of Chicago from Bill Rankin's Radical Cartography. Red represents white people, blue is black, green is Asian, and orange is Hispanic, and each dot is 25 people.
