{"id":6481,"date":"2010-12-16T17:30:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T00:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=6481"},"modified":"2015-11-04T07:18:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:18:21","slug":"mapping-america-reveals-some-interesting-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/mapping-america-reveals-some-interesting-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping America: reveals some interesting truths"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This “race and ethnicity” mapping tool<\/a> published by the NY Times, overlay on a Google Map, collects census data spanning from 2005-09. It reveals some interesting reflections of the 5 boroughs: Roosevelt Island is pretty damned mixed; there’s more red in Flushing than in Chinatown; one side of Prospect Park is solid green, the other solid blue; there is one lone red and one lone yellow dot in Breezy Point, otherwise its all green; there are people living in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, but not in Central Park; and, do any White people live in the Bronx?<\/p>\n

(click any of the following images to embiggen)<\/p>\n

a snapshot of the 5 boroughs:
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my neighborhood of Dutch Kills is quite mixed, and the specific “tract” that I live in is only 12% White, with as many as 9% being reported as “Other”:
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this detail of Manhattan (left) shows a large concentration of Asians (i.e. Chinatown) and some areas of north Brooklyn are as much as 95% white now (I wonder what color these dots would have been 10, 15, 20 years ago…):
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this map of Astoria suggests there might be at least one person, a White person, living in the Con Ed power plant on the north shore:
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and lastly a snapshot of the contiguous United States, which basically shows all the urban centers and their relative race-color dots:
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http:\/\/projects.nytimes.com\/census\/2010\/explorer?view=raceethnicity&lat=40.6311&lng=-73.994&l=12<\/a><\/p>\n

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This “race and ethnicity” mapping tool published by the NY Times, overlay on a Google Map, collects census data spanning from 2005-09. It reveals some interesting reflections of the 5 boroughs: Roosevelt Island is pretty damned mixed; there’s more red in Flushing than in Chinatown; one side of Prospect Park is solid green, the other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-6481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuffs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/map_america.jpg?fit=1351%2C674&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-1Gx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6481"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15431,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions\/15431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6481"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=6481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}