Big data: US 2010 census racial map
Originally shared by +Sander Timmer
The people from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service published an awesome piece of big data mapping online. They took the race of each individual American and overlayed that on a map. The result is a stunning map of the States on which you can see clear city block race boundaries that, to me, indicates how badly races are mingling.
http://www.sandertimmer.nl/2013/08/big-data-us-2010-census-racial-map/
#bigdata #census2010 #census #race #map #america #science #socialscience #np
The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service published an interesting data rich map online the other day. They took all the US 2010 census data about race and decided to plot that on a single map. Each American is represented as a dot (yes that are many dots!).
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Your reading of the demographic data is problematic. Social science research shows that racial concentrations are not really about races not "mingling." Rather they are the outcome of historical and institutional racism. In brief, non-white minorities are not able to get mortgages to buy houses in new neighbourhoods, while White people do not experience the same problem. This keeps White people more upwardly mobile – giving them the ability to move to new areas and build them up if needed. Non-whites are not given the same opportunity. I'll explain further in a post and HT you.
+Zuleyka Zevallos sorry for the wrong posting will pay more attention next time.
I didn't drew any conclusion but merely made the observation that races are not mingling (maybe I should have use different phrasing) which is sort-off the conclusion of the many hypothesis you put up.
I really wonder how many of your reasons would stand up in an empirical study based on facts from banks etc. As far as I can see here in Europe young people from ALL races have issues securing mortgages and I would not dare to pinpoint to banks and call it racism. But I assume you have data to back such claims and if so I'm extremely keen to read them!