Posted on 05/18/2014 9:17:05 AM PDT by blam
These Maps Show How Segregated The US Still Is
Pamela Engel
Apr. 28, 2014, 4:59 PM
America might be less segregated now than ever, but it remains far from total racial integration.
2010 Census maps, posted to Reddit by user DMan9797, illustrate this point well.
Check out the maps, in which darker spots show higher population density for a particular race (click here for larger versions):
The highest concentration of African-Americans is in the Southeast:
Segregation maps - Imgur/U.S. Census Bureau
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
The cartographic imbecile who made the county and State boundary lines on these maps so faint as to be indistinguishable through the data should be stripped of their “license to operate a GIS console” — after being horsewhipped...
So why would that be surprising? That's where the slave states were and so it makes sense that the highest populations would be there. People just assumed that when slavery ended, that all the former slaves bolted for the north or went back to Africa. That's just not the case.
I don't blame them by the way, for not going back to Africa. They are much better off here in the U.S.A., even though many of them would have the white people feel guilty about it.
That’s funny.
My great grandfather arrived in southern Iowa in 1902 from Sweden. He worked in the coal mines and laid bricks until he saved enough money to bring his wife and daughter from Sweden.
The daughter was my mother’s mother.
Oh PLEASE yes!
btw, are we related? We have the same last name!! (1)
And no one retires to the north!
It means southerners are more apt to judge someone based on their individual character than the color of their skin, than a New Englander or a Minnesotan.
For someone I know personally that is very true but otherwise not exactly. I profile for the same reason police do.
I means that when a black man walks into a Southern store, people merely glance at him, not watch him fearfully like a hawk.
Why a black man? Are whites subject to 'racism' also? It depends on the black man but for a large percentage of blacks the same profiling applies.
It means that a Southerner hires a handyman based on how good a job he does, not because one expects extra points for being so progressive as to hire a black man.
I know for people I work with and live around that is generally true but there are plenty of progressives in the South.
What no Gay map!
I wonder why Dona Ana County, New Mexico is yellow on this map?
And you really think people fearfully watch black men like hawks in stores in other parts of the country? Get out more. Maybe nobody even glances up here any more.
A lot depends on the store, though. Jewelry stores are different from K-Mart, probably wherever you go in the country.
Silly premise. If you evenly spread out a minority group across the whole country eventually their power, their culture, their identity and the group itself would disappear.
People living where they want to live isn’t segregation, it’s clustering.
I thought it was silly too, when I was told, that people would commit suicide to bring down airliners.
Good. Welcome to FR! (yeah, I know you aren't a noob)
nully ~ It means that when a black man walks into a Southern store, people merely glance at him, not watch him fearfully like a hawk.
Altura Ct. ~ Why a black man? Are whites subject to 'racism' also?
Because in a New England store or a Minnesota store a black man is more apt to be watched, and a white is merely glanced at. In the South, they get pretty much the same treatment.
Altura Ct. ~ It depends on the black man but for a large percentage of blacks the same profiling applies.
Of course! But the tendency is to be more wary of the unusual.
I know for people I work with and live around that is generally true but there are plenty of progressives in the South.
Yep, and plenty of level headed Minahoovians as well. That's why I said apt to not certain to, or always...
On public transit the other day, the bus driver got into a long, loud, extended rant with a passenger about how whites were moving into black neighborhoods (both driver and passenger were black). The conversation was triggered by the sight of a woman whose car was parked in some temporary zone and she was trying to edge her way out of it.
"What's a white woman doing in this neighborhood?"
The route in question was along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Some lovely old homes are along that route, but many are in a state of disrepair.
Both driver and passenger entered into a spirited discussion about whites moving into black neighborhoods. "Gentrification, it's called," yelled the bus driver.
"Blacks will have nowhere to go, where do they want us to go, Pittsburg, Antioch?" "It's a CONSPIRACY, I tell you!"
Some do.
Maybe nobody even glances up here any more.
Just out of curiosity, where is "up here"? Your home page is strangely mute on that point...
A lot depends on the store, though. Jewelry stores are different from K-Mart, probably wherever you go in the country.
The staff at a jewelery store is more apt to watch everyone like a hawk. They're usually well enough trained to not make it obvious, though!
+1
These liberals, the racists, are just mad blacks live in the most desirable of places and want them to move out to the cold northeast so they can move in.
The goal is to diversify all neighborhoods in America.
What those maps show is not what is meant by ‘segregation’ at all.
People tend to assume that 50 years ago in the South is ancient history and 30 or 40 years ago in Brooklyn or Boston or Chicago is the present. But change happens, in the North as in the South, and young people growing up now are different from what we were at their age.
I don't doubt that people are friendlier in the South or that Black and White people are more cordial with each other. Big cities are cold places and cities in the Northeastern states are colder still. But I do object to the way we get turned into stereotypes.
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