The racial dot map

[Miles]

This is pretty cool.

[tik 🪀✨]

Yes. Yes it is. Kind of makes me smile thinking about the loons who believe that white people are becoming out-bred by blacks and Hispanics. I'm also no demographics buff so I was fascinated to see such a distinct southern black belt that looks smack dab in the middle of the bible belt.

[Cory]

I'm also no demographics buff so I was fascinated to see such a distinct southern black belt that looks smack dab in the middle of the bible belt.

The "Slave Belt". It's an emerging demographic that I think will, combined with Hispanics, begin to put parts of the South back in play for Democrats.

[memphis]

Yes. Yes it is. Kind of makes me smile thinking about the loons who believe that white people are becoming out-bred by blacks and Hispanics. I'm also no demographics buff so I was fascinated to see such a distinct southern black belt that looks smack dab in the middle of the bible belt.

That's where the best, most expensive farm land was in the 19th century. I'll let you put two and two together.

[JerryArkansas]

Yes. Yes it is. Kind of makes me smile thinking about the loons who believe that white people are becoming out-bred by blacks and Hispanics. I'm also no demographics buff so I was fascinated to see such a distinct southern black belt that looks smack dab in the middle of the bible belt.

Something I can add is this, it is regrowing now since the new great migration started, ramping up in the 1990's to now.

[old timey villain]

Anybody who marvels at how heavily black this area of the country is should have been there about 100 years ago, before the great migration. In 1900 African Americans made up almost half of the population of Georgia, and in the black belt they composed upwards of 75-90% in many counties. It kind of makes you understand why southern whites relied so strongly on Jim Crow laws- they knew they were very much outnumbered.

[Linus Van Pelt]

Bump - looking around for some other stuff, I found that someone has made a map like this for the Toronto area using 2011 data.

http://neoformix.com/Projects/DotMaps/TorontoVisMin.html

Strictly speaking, the Canadian census does not ask for "race" in the American sense. There is a question whether someone is a "visible minority" (i.e. not white), and then the visible minorities are asked to pick some categories that are more specific than US-Census races, more like ethnic or national origin. The author of the map appears to have grouped these together into groups roughly like US races, except that "South Asian" was kept separate from "Asian" (unfortunately with a color that's a bit tricky to tell from the "Black" color at long range in mixed areas). And also, all this is from the National Household Survey, which is more like the ACS, sampling-based and voluntary. The actual census has no race-like question. Still, interesting to compare.

[Mr. Illini]

Really cool stuff. I can zoom into my town and see trends literally from apartment complex to apartment complex and neighborhood to neighborhood.

[illegaloperation]

What is interesting is that I could see the Appalachia from that map.

[TDAS04]

It clearly demonstrates that major metropolitan areas have more people of all races, including more whites, than rural areas.  When I saw my town (Sioux Falls, SD) on the map, the racial makeup didn't jump out at me as much as how unpopulated my area is compared to the Twin Cities area of Minnesota (both areas are mostly white).