I was going to post this as a reply to
this thread, but honestly it's better as a top-level thing. It's probably been posted before (the data is now 11 years old), but what the hell.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THIS EXTREMELY COOL MAP
It's interactive. You can zoom in & out, just like Google Maps.
Here are a few interesting things:
Looking at Detroit, you can see the extreme white/black segregation:
All images are screencaps from the Weldon Cooper Center's Racial Dot Map
Houston by comparison has a lot more mixing:
The uptown area in particular:
LA. The Valley looks like the most diverse part, maybe?
I'm hesitant to post New York, because if you go to the real map and zoom in, it's more integrated than it looks here. Especially Manhattan. I wonder if that will still be true if we get similar maps for 2020.
DC. You can see how the city core and parts of the suburbs are white/black segregated, while a broad stretch of suburbia north and west is extraordinarily diverse. You can also see how the monumental core is a weird donut hole in the city, exactly where you'd expect it to be most dense.
What do you see?
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