Gallery: The Best Map Ever Made of America's Racial Segregation
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This map, created by Dustin Cable at University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, is [the most comprehensive representation of racial distribution in America ever made.](http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html) Here: New York City.
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Drawing from the 2010 Census, it shows one dot per person. White people are shown with blue dots; African-Americans with green; Asians with red; and Latinos with orange, with all other race categories from the Census represented by brown. Here: Atlanta.
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Here we see Chicago, with bands of different races stacked atop one another.
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Southern LA is relatively well-integrated, with the colors mixing into each other throughout.
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The Northern part of LA.
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In Detroit, among the most segregated cities in America, 8 Mile Road serves as a sharp dividing line.
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Here we see Birmingham, Alabama, where whites have historically lived "over the mountain" to the South.
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Dallas gives us a sense of the dense, sprawling cities of the West.
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Here: New Orleans, another one of the nation's most segregated cities.
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Philadelphia shows distinct clusters of races.
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Here's San Francisco; the large Asian-American population is evident.
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Sacramento, another one of California's well-integrated large cities.
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And Portland, also more evenly distributed (and significantly whiter).
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St. Louis, with a large predominantly black area to the North and a White one to the South.
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Omaha.
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Salt Lake City.
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But Cable's map doesn't just tell us about individual cities. It shows how sparsely people are distributed in the West, though densely packed big cities keep states like Texas and California among the most populous.
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The faint band of green represents the Black Belt, a region where plantation agriculture thrived.
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Accounting for all levels of zoom, the map includes over 1.2 million PNG files--some 7GB of visual data.
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[Find the full, interactive map here.](http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html)
