One dot = one person. A visual look at the racial demographic of the US

Check this out, every dot supposedly represents a person and the color of the dot represents that person's race. I was surprised to see, based on this 9 year old map, how the areas I've lived in during the past 20 years are almost exclusively Hispanic - I knew it was big, but not that big. But wait until you see the color of the dots in the north east; I never expected to see what this map showed me.

https://demographics.virginia.edu/D...XUtiibkTxpGRlMPrsK9iulBN2vM5_xlrAg6L1p2JpyJEg

 

I thought the right doesn't like to make everything about race?

On that map I see a sh*t load of blue (meaning white).

Poor blue people, can't get a break.

 

I'm sorry you dont find this interesting or educational.

 

Well what is to be gained from seeing those different colored dots?

I thought the right doesn't like to frame everything by race.

 

It’s interesting to see. Especially the stark divisions in some areas.

The argument is that race shouldn’t matter not that it doesn’t exist.

It’s cute you try to frame this as racist yet you are the one disparaging white people as “poor white people can’t get a break”.

 

What is interesting about it, exactly?

Of course this is "racist"...the whole thing is about race. Whenever a "liberal" or "Dem" discusses anything about race, the right slams them for being obsessed with race.

As for my joke about blue people...it was a joke.

But it does seem ironic, does it not, that some blue people are feeling disenfranchised or whatever? When I looked at the map, at first I was thinking well there are no blue dots....then I realized there are so many blue dots, they don't look like dots...the whole thing is just blue.

 

Racism is the belief that one ethnicity is superior. A population chart is not racist and nothing disparaging about race has been mentioned besides your own.

From my understanding, some white people feel that there is a double standard when it comes to racism in America. All racism is bad. All preferential treatment on the basis of color is bad. It is degrading and should not be tolerated.

 

Can we get one for illegal aliens too?

 

So I've asked now 3 times....what is interesting about the chart?

What difference does it make that areas where the OP lives are more Hispanic?

What is interesting about the north east?

 

What for?

 

Why not?

 

So far, no one can even explain the point or the interest.

Oh, look, some colored dots...cool!

 

First of all, it doesn't make a difference that where I lived was mostly Hispanic, it's that I lived there and never noticed.

Second, if you zoon in on some of the cities, you'll see people tend to live in enclaves based upon their ethnicity. I'm not saying this is good or bad, but to me it's an interesting observation. Take a look at Tucson, above Hwy 10 is the dots are mostly one color, below the highway it's mostly a different color. A similar pattern seems to exist in the Phoenix area. If you scroll up to San Francisco, you'll see a very high concentration of Asians which surprised the heck out of me. Now scroll up to Portland and the dominant color is blue, or white people, and that also surprised me.

Atlanta seems have one color of dots concentrated north of the city and south of the city the dots are a different color. But for me the biggest shocker was the Boston area, I never knew the dot enclaves were so strong in a region where diversity is strongly encouraged.

We seem to talk a lot about diversity, but I think this map shows diversity doesn't necessarily apply to where people want to put their families, and that people like to be among what they're familiar or comfortable with. Maybe you have a different opinion.

I find high end stereo systems interesting, you might not. You might find sports cars interesting, I do not. But I thought the people on this board would find this interesting, but if I didn't float your boat then all I can do is offer my apologies and move on.

 

Yet here you are with your 6th post in this thread.

 

I think there are a lot of reasons.

One is economic. Also, segregation has played a big part.

For example:

Why Los Angeles is still a segregated city after all these years
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rothstein-segregated-housing-20170820-story.html

Every metropolitan area in the nation is racially segregated, and Los Angeles is no exception. We tolerate residential segregation because we're convinced that it happened informally — because of personal choices and private discrimination. But what cemented our separate neighborhoods is something most of us have forgotten — government's unconstitutional and systematic insistence on segregated housing in the mid-20th century, establishing patterns that persist to this day.

I also think looking at a chart like that can play into bias as to what one wants to see.

There are plenty of places that are diverse.

 

Why are the righties concerned about race.

Oh, yes, that's right.

 

The map is nearly all blue, but there are many loons on this board telling us white people are about to disappear.

 

Economics probably plays a pretty big role. There's a town 20 miles from where I live which is dirt poor, the houses are falling down, it's a pretty bad place to live. But a hundred yards of the main road are two beautiful, large, and probably insanely expensive houses. The word is the people who own them became very successful but couldn't leave their roots.

 

I think the most interesting thing about this map is the way it brings out the inner ignorance of some people and how hard they will fight to misinterpret, resist and make any excuse to remain that way.

The first thing I thought of looking at the maps was, marketing of certain products.. Then again I didn't immediately slide in to the quagmire of petty racism either ¯\_(º¸º)_/¯

 

Where do you see 'concern about race?' The University of Virginia put this map together and we're trying to discuss it like adults. Here's more https://demographics.coopercenter.org/index.php

 

Seriously!

 

The map display can be a little misleading.

If you look in the densely packed areas, a lot of those dots are right on top of each other.
That means there is a lot of color on the map that's not blue that doesn't end up showing up in the display.

You might notice an interesting effect on the map, the city areas will appear to become more colorful as you zoom in.

 

Excpt Hawaii. Hardly any blue basterds.

 

Also realize many of those blue dots represent really old people who are long past having children and are just going to die off in a matter of time.

You couldn't tell by this map but if they made a map that only showed all the children under the age of 5, the majority of the dots on that country-wide map would not be blue.

I await them making a more interactive map so we could see what this would look like.
The distribution of children is probably not what the distribution for the rest of the population looks like.

 

I did notice that, but overall the maps displays trends or patterns.