New York Racial Demography

[homelycooking]

Here is the white-strength map I said I would make using the same scale as my New England map. It took at least ten hours to pull all the data off the Census website and color in the map: so, enjoy.



And, I am at your service for any requests for maps of other races or of overall population.

Merry Christmas,

hc

[Sbane]

Thank you! I would ask for a % Asian map, but I suspect it won't be too interesting if we can't see the splits within Queens county.

[homelycooking]

I'll make it later on. I can tell you that the only major Asian population centers are NYC, NYC suburbs and exurbs and Ithaca.

[bgwah]

Ten hours?

You probably could have learned how to use a GIS program in that amount of time!!

Nice map.

[memphis]

Upstate New York is uniformly white and the city not so much? Who knew?

[homelycooking]

Upstate New York is uniformly white

Except for prisons. Two thirds of Washington County's non-white population is incarcerated, for example.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I created a weird map, just Christmas eve madness you might say. I was drawing 45 district New York, unfortunately, I only got to 34 because of some kind of glitch in the app. I created an asian plurality district in Queens. It helps when you only need 450,000 people for a district though.

[homelycooking]

Here is Asian strength state wide.

[Sounder]

The mother township was looking funny on that map until I remembered that it had a juvenile prison.

[Brittain33]

That horizontal little town south of Rochester is also the center of Rochester's Jewish community, per my partner.

[Sbane]

I created a weird map, just Christmas eve madness you might say. I was drawing 45 district New York, unfortunately, I only got to 34 because of some kind of glitch in the app. I created an asian plurality district in Queens. It helps when you only need 450,000 people for a district though.

An Asian majority district has been drawn in NYC by a few posters, although that was based on NY losing only one seat iirc.

[Lunar]

I created a weird map, just Christmas eve madness you might say. I was drawing 45 district New York, unfortunately, I only got to 34 because of some kind of glitch in the app. I created an asian plurality district in Queens. It helps when you only need 450,000 people for a district though.

An Asian majority district has been drawn in NYC by a few posters, although that was based on NY losing only one seat iirc.

Link?  I live right next to Chinese Brooklyn, so it'd be lovely to see.  Especially if one could get Flushing to connect to Koreatown/Chinatown and South Brooklyn

[Sbane]

I created a weird map, just Christmas eve madness you might say. I was drawing 45 district New York, unfortunately, I only got to 34 because of some kind of glitch in the app. I created an asian plurality district in Queens. It helps when you only need 450,000 people for a district though.

An Asian majority district has been drawn in NYC by a few posters, although that was based on NY losing only one seat iirc.

Link?  I live right next to Chinese Brooklyn, so it'd be lovely to see.  Especially if one could get Flushing to connect to Koreatown/Chinatown and South Brooklyn

Here you go.

I know we were asked not to post every swing state diary map here when people can see them there on their own, but this "New York 28-0" takes the cake for treating redistricting as an abstraction. I'm actually offended that someone submitted it.

http://www.swingstateproject.com/diary/6166/#108516

I was bothered by the fact that the author of this reduced the minority levels so much in CD-15 that whites are the largest group by a significant amount, and then called it a VRA district. So I decided to retaliate with a VRA-based map that maximizes minority-majority districts.

In my map below I assume 28 districts and all are within 100 using 2008 data on the App. NYC has 8 districts with a single minority majority:

CD-16 (bright green - Bronx) 58% Hispanic.
CD-15 (orange - New York, Bronx, and some Queens) 51% Hispanic
CD-12 (blue - Kings, Queens, and a bit of New York) 51% Hispanic
CD-11 (lime green - Kings) 55% Black
CD-10 (magenta - Kings) 55% Black
CD-7 (grey - Bronx, Queens) 56% Hispanic
CD-6 (cyan - Queens, Nassau) 55% Black

and the drum roll please ...

CD-5 (yellow - Queens, New York, and Kings) 51% Asian



The majority-Asian CD-5 defines this map. It links Flushing in Queens to Chinatown in Manhattan and on to Sunset Park in Brooklyn. The other districts then work around that district. The other majority-minority districts maintain the largest group in the current CD.

I restricted the Staten Island district (CD-13) to cross into Brooklyn and that forced CD8 to run from lower Manhattan up to Yonkers, though CD-14 could have connected to Yonkers instead by crossing Central Park. On Long Island the constraints of CDs 5 and 6 forced CD3 (purple) to go from Coney Island out to Suffolk County along the Atlantic. The population shifts also caused CD-17 (dark blue-grey) to go from Westchester through Co Op City in the Bronx to cross at Throgs Neck and run along the Sound to NW Nassau.

Enjoy.

[Lunar]

Haha, that's one crazy cool looking district, I think it gobbles up my block in Sunset Park but I can't quite tell.

[Sbane]

You might be able to tell on this map.

Here's a more zoomed in version of the NYC Asian district. It's 51% Asian; the Brooklyn and Queens portions are 48% Asian each while the Manhattan part is 71% Asian. The bulk of the population is in Queens, though. This district would have really interesting (read: wild) primaries as the different neighborhoods coalesced around their own candidates. And the Chinese v. Korean v. South Asian dynamic would be interesting (although that's somewhat neighborhood-based as well, and Chinese are clearly the largest Asian group in the district).

[Lunar]

I think I'm in it, but it's quite close.  The central thrust of the Brooklyn area is 8th ave. I believe (8's a lucky number in China) and I'm over by 6th and 59th.

[muon2]

I think I'm in it, but it's quite close.  The central thrust of the Brooklyn area is 8th ave. I believe (8's a lucky number in China) and I'm over by 6th and 59th.

Unfortunately with the new estimates in v2.0 and the need for larger districts using 27 CD's, I don't see a way of getting close to 50% Asian now.

[Verily]

I think I'm in it, but it's quite close.  The central thrust of the Brooklyn area is 8th ave. I believe (8's a lucky number in China) and I'm over by 6th and 59th.

Unfortunately with the new estimates in v2.0 and the need for larger districts using 27 CD's, I don't see a way of getting close to 50% Asian now.

It should be very possible once the actual Census data is available, though, as the Asian population has risen primarily in areas that already have a lot of Asians while not rising in areas with few Asians in 2000. Dave's Redistricting isn't great at estimating the population distribution within large counties.

[Lunar]

There's a fairly strong opinion in Sunset, I would say, that the Chinese population is surging.  For example, see this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/nyregion/29church.html

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homely, now that you're back . . .
I'd be really interested in seeing a black demography map if you get the chance.