Racial Dot map of US

[packman]

A fascinating interactive map of the races in the US where one dot represents one person. SORRY, couldn't get a pix to post, but site is very interesting.

What struck me is the wide band of blacks from Mississippi thru the South into the Carolinas. It would seem that it is known that the Dems got this racial group under its "tent" that it would be a heavily Dem voting stronghold - but the opposite has been shown in election after election. Yes, I know about gerrymandering, voting supression, etc. - but still that's a lot of black votes being shown by the map.

http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html

[Leme]

1. nice looking map but...

it claims 1 dot = 1 person
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I do not see 300-350 million dots
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poor resolution maybe

[arcane1]

2. There's easily that many dots, especially if you zoom in n/t

[marble falls]

3. Way cool and delivered as promised.

[dsc]

4. the problem is that the blacks are outnumbered state wide

and the whites vote quite overwhelmingly for Republicans.

[Sunlei]

5. America is still segregated by neighborhoods, schools and even by state-counties and states.

Not to long ago the neighborhood associations around here had white only in their 'contract'.

Not to long ago entire counties in some states kicked out (killed, took their homes/land) all black people from the county. Many southern state counties are still by official census report majority white or black.

I know when I was shopping for a home in Texas about 10 years ago, I looked at all the neighborhood association rules and fees. Some of the older neighborhoods weren't really updated or computerized and still used their old 50s-60s contracts and lined out the agree to sell to whites only verbiage.


IMO neighborhoods should not be allowed to have any kind of association with rules and fees, and foreclosures through fines unpaid because persons without money get into the thousands of dollars over-due fees very quickly. This is a barrier to equality and even today punishes poverty.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. So much SPACE

The colour-coding by race is interesting too, but to my UK eyes the really striking thing is how much empty space there is in the USA.

[Aristus]

7. And most of that empty space is located between the ears of too many Americans.

I want to live in a smarter country...