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The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S.

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Anyone notice the triangle of people floating in the empty space at the southwestern corner of San Francisco near Lake Merced? That appears to be the Olympic Club golf course. Do people actually list the golf course as their home address on their census forms?

There's a park near me that appears to have several hundred or thousand Asian people living in it. I'm not sure how accurate this data is...

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Anyone notice the triangle of people floating in the empty space at the southwestern corner of San Francisco near Lake Merced? That appears to be the Olympic Club golf course. Do people actually list the golf course as their home address on their census forms?

There's a park near me that appears to have several hundred or thousand Asian people living in it. I'm not sure how accurate this data is...

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Is this correct? I thought the Hispanic and the black are like 40~% already, the picture still give you the impression that non-white is something just like 5% Also, there are only two melting-pots, one in NY and one at CA, per the picture.

America is 77% white. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html

Only if you count the 17% who are hispanic as white, otherwise it's 62%. But Hispanic white people will probably stop being viewed as a separate racial groups before that long, as happened with the Irish.

Re: The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

America is 77% white. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html

Only if you count the 17% who are hispanic as white, otherwise it's 62%. But Hispanic white people will probably stop being viewed as a separate racial groups before that long, as happened with the Irish.

Yeah I mean, they're still of European descent, why not call them white? I know, race is fuzzy.

Edit: For the US Census, Hispanic people are of "Spanish culture or origin regardless of race."

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Is this correct? I thought the Hispanic and the black are like 40~% already, the picture still give you the impression that non-white is something just like 5% Also, there are only two melting-pots, one in NY and one at CA, per the picture.

America is 77% white. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html

White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, is 62.6%. "White" and "Hispanic" are overlapping categories for census purposes.

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I find the fully-zoomed in view to be the most fascinating. To be able to see the administrative lines appear, like the diamond of DC, even though it's one gigantic metropolis almost all the way up to Baltimore. And definitely confirms what I already knew about Philadelphia: extremely segregated.
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