Race and ethnicity: Chicago

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I was astounded by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago's racial and ethnic divides and wanted to see what other cities looked like mapped the same way. To match his map, Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA

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  1. johnelis 30 months ago | reply

    Red is used to denote "Whites" under the now accepted cultural denotation of America divided between "Red States" - White mostly rural Conservative areas and "Blue States" - liberal, heavily non White urban dominated states.

    Blacks vote lib Dem - so they are "Blue" - Whites (even though Chicago Whites don't vote Conservative Republican" are denoted in Red.

  2. UkrVillage 29 months ago | reply

    Looks accurate to me.

  3. Eric Fischer 26 months ago | reply

    Updated for Census 2010:

  4. Jarkins76 6 months ago | reply

    So true. I guess what surprises me from the 2000 is that the west loop has changed drastically!

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