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Maps show racial breakdown of American cities

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/...99_634x642.jpg
Detroit: Red represents White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot represents 25 people
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/...06_634x629.jpg
Washington, DC: The east-west divide of the nation's capital can clearly be seen
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/...00_634x576.jpg
New York: The dots are so dense they almost cannot help but be separated - yet the Big Apple still has clear pockets of ethnicity
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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.

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I thought this was pretty neat. Not sure what to make of it, but thought I'd share.

people like to live with their own kind.

The island of red in the area of blue in the DC map is Capitol Hill, where it's kind of expensive and became trendy about two decades ago. So that's why the whites live there.

I looked at NYC. I don't really know NYC. There's a similar area in Kings where a small enclave of whites lives in a sea of blacks. I can't figure out what it is. It seems to be centered at the intersection of Nostrand Ave and Empire Blvd, which looks like every other neighborhood in Kings.

Every (upper middle class) white person I know who lives in a city says they like it because it's diverse.

what would be cool (and very very arty) would be to convert a 4 color process image (CYMK) into a racial map and overlay it on a city to show what kind of diversity you would really get if you were to interpret an image's CMYK components as groups of 25 people of a certain ethnicity.

I'll see if I can mock up an example and upload it later.

Thats great glatt - thats one thing I was hoping for. Some one who lived in or knew a city to make it ore personal or explain what some of the areas are like.
I also wonder what Chicago or Tempe might look like.

See how freeways affect more than just traffic...

This is the blob of whites in the middle of Detroit.

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Originally Posted by Lamplighter (Post 685264)

See how freeways affect more than just traffic...

In Philly's case the boundaries long preceded the highways, in fact they dictated the location of most of them. Sorely needed I-476 took 50 years to get built, because the rich fuckers had the clout and lawyers to fight it, until the old guard died off.

Weren't those routes of travel there long before highways?

But even so once the freeways are in, neighborhood (racial) boundaries are often set in concrete (pun intended).

The trouble in Philly is the ones that don't follow water, are mostly elevated highways, which makes it harder to keep the riff raff in their place.

That's my point exactly... and such attitudes go both ways

But neighborhood (racial) boundaries were often set in concrete long before the freeways came.