Gallery: The Best Map Ever Made of America's Racial Segregation
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This map, created by Dustin Cable at University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, is [the most comprehensive representation of racial distribution in America ever made.](http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html) Here: New York City.
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Drawing from the 2010 Census, it shows one dot per person. White people are shown with blue dots; African-Americans with green; Asians with red; and Latinos with orange, with all other race categories from the Census represented by brown. Here: Atlanta.
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Here we see Chicago, with bands of different races stacked atop one another.
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Southern LA is relatively well-integrated, with the colors mixing into each other throughout.
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The Northern part of LA.
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In Detroit, among the most segregated cities in America, 8 Mile Road serves as a sharp dividing line.
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Here we see Birmingham, Alabama, where whites have historically lived "over the mountain" to the South.
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Dallas gives us a sense of the dense, sprawling cities of the West.
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Here: New Orleans, another one of the nation's most segregated cities.
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Philadelphia shows distinct clusters of races.
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Here's San Francisco; the large Asian-American population is evident.
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Sacramento, another one of California's well-integrated large cities.
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And Portland, also more evenly distributed (and significantly whiter).
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St. Louis, with a large predominantly black area to the North and a White one to the South.
