Food Deserts and Inequality in Access to Nutrition.

[Ibby]

i note that the first map especially is really closely correlated with the election results...

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Ibby

i note that the first map especially is really closely correlated with the election results...

Wow, those are some insanely highly detailed maps, without a lot of concrete reference points to correlate. Do you have photographic memory of spacial orientation details, or did you overlay semi-transparent layers of the maps in a graphics editing program?

How did you determine the correlations between the maps? Even that they were "really closely correlated" --by what percentage would you estimate?

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by Flint

Wow, those are some insanely highly detailed maps, without a lot of concrete reference points to correlate. Do you have photographic memory of spacial orientation details, or did you overlay semi-transparent layers of the maps in a graphics editing program?

How did you determine the correlations between the maps? Even that they were "really closely correlated" --by what percentage would you estimate?

It's more that I'm familiar with the elections map - note the rings of white flight republicans surrounding southern democratic cities - along with remembering an article I can't find about how the blue curve that runs along the fertile strip of the south - from Mississippi (rich Delta soil) across Alabama and Georgia up into the Carolinas - makes millions-of-years-old dead plankton relevant in American politics (by making that stretch of formerly-submerged land particularly fertile, meaning they became predominantly black in the age of slavery and retain large african-american populations today), and I notice the same trend of predominantly african-american areas having more food deserts than whiter areas.
edit to add: so obviously I'm speaking in a political science mindset, not mathematical correlation. Just "eyeballing" it as it were.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Ibby

It's more that I'm familiar with the elections map - note the rings of white flight republicans surrounding southern democratic cities - along with remembering an article I can't find about how the blue curve that runs along the fertile strip of the south - from Mississippi (rich Delta soil) across Alabama and Georgia up into the Carolinas - makes millions-of-years-old dead plankton relevant in American politics (by making that stretch of formerly-submerged land particularly fertile, meaning they became predominantly black in the age of slavery and retain large african-american populations today), and I notice the same trend of predominantly african-american areas having more food deserts than whiter areas.
edit to add: so obviously I'm speaking in a political science mindset, not mathematical correlation. Just "eyeballing" it as it were.

So which maps are you eyeballing? The food desert maps I see here look like random splotches, whereas the last map (I assume the election map) has the type of clear features you are describing.

For instance, which food maps show the "rings of white flight republicans surrounding southern democratic cities" or the "predominantly african-american areas"? I'm having trouble seeing this. By looking at the zoomed-in cities, it appears that the food deserts are in rural, or outlying areas. I can understand that, because where I live it takes 30 minutes to drive to a grocery store.