How segregated is your city?

[MrMatt]

Maps

Go Boston! WHITE IS RIGHT IS MIGHT!

Seriously though...wow


link fixed!

 

[IronWing]

Your first link got delinked.

 

[destrekor]

What website is the first one? It shows up censored.

 

[CZroe]

Use a URL-shortener unless it's something you thing AT intentionally blocked (not just a word filter). Was it Ebaum's?

 

[IronWing]

Tucson isn't too bad. Plenty of mixed neighborhoods. There are a few pockets of monoculture like the old barrios and the hyper-expensive foothills and one newer development that ended up being extremely white, protestant, and politically conservative. The only thing we can figure is that realtors are steering like minded folks into that development.

Things may have changed in the decade since I left but when I lived in Lexington, KY you could draw two lines across the city to cut out a pie wedge and separate 95% of the white folk from 95% of the black folk.

 

[MrMatt]

link fixed!

 

[Dirigible]

Hella jumbled with all different colors around me.

Detroit: Wow!

 

[BornStar]

Here's my metro area, Detroit:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4982034696/in/set-72157624812674967/

 

[Anubis]

i live in a tiny town i think i can count the number of non white people here on 2 hands

 

[rivan]

STL's about what I expected.

The blue is (mostly, not all) where the crime is.

 

[Homerboy]

Im too lazy to find Milwaukee in that jumble.
Rest assured it is very, very segregated.

 

[ElFenix]

houston


i'd like to see a comparison with 2010 census data once that's all out

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Here's the real question. Are the cities segregated because of governmental policies or is it because certain groups want to live with people of the same race, sort of a self imposed segregation.

 

[soulcougher73]

Cool maps. KC seems about right from what i can tell.

As Rivan said also. The blue are has a lot more crime.

 

[soulcougher73]

Here's the real question. Are the cities segregated because of governmental policies or is it because certain groups want to live with people of the same race, sort of a self imposed segregation.

I would assume the latter. People like to call it racist etc, but its just human nature to want to be around your own race to some extent. Familiarity, things in common, etc.

 

[rivan]

...its just human nature to want to be around your own race to some extent. Familiarity, things in common, etc.

Personally, it's far more the latter than the former.

I'll happily welcome a family of any color who takes care of their property and in general gives a damn about the community in which they live. In the same vein, I'd rather not have a family of any color that leaves trash in their yard, or has a project car but no garage for it, or deals drugs out their back door, or doesn't keep their kids in line.

 

[dainthomas]

Portland is the least segregated city ever. Because everyone's equally white.

 

[bignateyk]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/5010388715/in/set-72157624812674967/

Pittsburgh is pretty much all white people. No asian/hispanic, and just a few blue areas where all the poverty/high crime occurs.