Dustin Cable, a researcher at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, really likes dots.
Using data from the 2010 census, his recently released map of segregation in America. It shows 308,745,538 colored dots (or people) coded based on their race. It is the first map to include every citizen in an ethnic distribution of the United States.
Whites are coded with blue dots, African-Americans are green, Asians are red, Hispanics are orange and other racial groups are brown. What color are you?
Although the large map appears to be covered in “smudges” at first, the zoom button displays the individual dots. A close-up view of the map shows racial divides across cities and even across streets.
Is this the progress we hoped for?
Can we say we’re a desegregated society with such a lack of racial integration? Let us know in the comments below!