Color-Coded Ethnicity Map Lets You See What Races Live Where in YOUR City! (how much, crime)
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But it really did surprise me that cities like Columbus and Augusta, Georgia (I have lived in both) or even Charlotte and all the Texan metropolises were well ahead of other cities when it comes to integration. The lines were quite literally blurred, while in cities like Baltimore, Philly, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Chicago you can put the different races into neat little boxes.
I've lived in Texas and traveled throughout South. Cities are still divided primarily by race and secondarily by income. It's really not that much different in most cities in this country with a few exceptions no matter where you go.
You give me a paper map and the yellow pages of ANY city in the USA and in a few hours, I will tell you with almost exact precision who lives where even if I have never been there before. Did it in college for a paper.
Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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Originally Posted by marmac
Would be interesting to see the crime rates for each area also.
In the research I did, the higher the % of blacks in an area, the higher the crime rate.
Maybe they figured everybody already knows that by now.
That has more to do with the number of poor people in a given area than it does race. It is just that blacks who are poor tend to live around other blacks who are poor whereas blacks, once the gain middle class status, tend to move into mostly white areas. There are some black middle class neighbourhoods and they are quite safe and well kept up from everything I have seen. But because there are so few of them- mainly because most middle class blacks move into white neighbourhoods- there is a perception that black neighbourhoods= crime which is not accurate.
I've lived in Texas and traveled throughout South. Cities are still divided primarily by race and secondarily by income. It's really not that much different in most cities in this country with a few exceptions no matter where you go.
Interesting to note SF was less integrated than SA. I guess they're a sanitary city for illegal immigrants as long as those immigrants don't move in next door.
Does it have little icons for all of the local KKK and Skinhead meetings too?
Yep, right along with the dots for:
crips
bloods
pirus
black p. stones
mara salvatrucha
surenos
mongols
nuestra familia
etc, etc, etc.......
(this list could go on forever)
remember, it ain't just whites
That has more to do with the number of poor people in a given area than it does race. It is just that blacks who are poor tend to live around other blacks who are poor whereas blacks, once the gain middle class status, tend to move into mostly white areas. There are some black middle class neighbourhoods and they are quite safe and well kept up from everything I have seen. But because there are so few of them- mainly because most middle class blacks move into white neighbourhoods- there is a perception that black neighbourhoods= crime which is not accurate.
Sorry, I would respectfully have to disagree with that. Almost everyone and their dog knows that more blacks = more crime, generally.
There are scores of poor white areas that have virtually no crime. The logic that poor = crime is only partly true, i'm afraid.
I don't have stats to back it up right now, but i'll find it. I know i've seen it somewhere.
Interesting to note SF was less integrated than SA. I guess they're a sanitary city for illegal immigrants as long as those immigrants don't move in next door.
Not really---the most heavily Hispanic neighborhood in San Francisco--the Mission District--is right next door to the rich and mostly white neighborhood of Noe Valley. San Francisco is very dense yet very small in size so the different ethnic neighborhoods are very close to each other--you can go from a predominantly Asian neighborhood to a Hispanic neighborhood to a white neighborhood to a black neighborhood in a very small area. Although on the west side of town it's mostly white and Asian.
And WTF is a sanitary city?
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