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Don't Worry White America, You're Safe.

3/20/2015

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This interactive map is amazing.  It is comprehensive, color-coded map of racial distribution across the United States.  Blue dots: White; green dots: Black; red dots: Asian; orange dots: Latino; brown dots: all other races.  Click on it and you can zoom in to any location in the country - down to individual neighborhoods - and see who lives where. It was created by Dustin Cable at University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.

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A quick look should give comfort to white people who are worried we are losing our dominant position in the United States. We pretty much have have the country covered.  And a closer look at specific cities should give pause to those who say that we are living in any sort of post racial society.  Our cities look a lot more like the Balkans then even a vaguely multicultural landscape. Some key cities:
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New York
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Los Angeles
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Chicago
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Detroit
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Where I live
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Patrick
3/22/2015 04:12:33 am

"You're safe"

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Carlie
4/1/2015 08:20:10 am

This is incredible. I've never been to Detroit, so I guess I thought the whole "8-Mile Road" thing was just a myth. But you can clearly see it is an actual line between the city and the races. So fascinating.

Also as a black woman, I really do appreciate this project and getting white people to look at and talk about things they are able to easily ignore on any other day. So thank you.

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Whitney
4/1/2015 11:32:26 am

Thanks Carlie, I found the map mesmerizing, and thanks for the kind words about the project. It is still a work in progress that I am trying to get right.

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