{"id":15164,"date":"2013-08-15T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-08-15T18:14:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T18:14:34","slug":"our-community-diversity-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/15\/our-community-diversity-close-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Community Diversity Close Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demographics.coopercenter.org\/DotMap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/Screen20Shot202013-08-1420at2010555120AM____zps287b15d2.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo Screen20Shot202013-08-1420at2010555120AM____zps287b15d2.png\"\/ align=left width=100><\/a><i>Color coded maps show our diversity, how we cluster by race<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Colbert talks about how he no longer sees race, but a new set of maps indicate that perhaps he isn&#8217;t in the majority. &nbsp;That being said, new racial dot maps from Virginia&#8217;s Cooper Center show our communities diversity and our continued racial segregation. The <a href=\"http:\/\/demographics.coopercenter.org\/DotMap\/index.html\">full map detail website<\/a> is apparently getting slammed right now, but I&#8217;ve grabbed a few of the images. <\/p>\n<p>Below are the maps for the Bay Area and the LA Area. You won&#8217;t be surprised to see that both communities are a vibrant mix of colors, but we still clearly cluster together on race. If you are able to get through to the <a href=\"http:\/\/demographics.coopercenter.org\/DotMap\/index.html\">full map detail website<\/a>, you can zoom in such that every dot represents a single person. It really is a beautiful expression of our diversity. H\/t to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/neighborhoods\/2013\/08\/strangely-beautiful-map-race-america\/6534\/\">the Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can click on these maps for a bigger view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/user\/utbriancl\/media\/BayArea_zps1e24cc90.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/BayArea_zps1e24cc90.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo BayArea_zps1e24cc90.jpg\"\/ height=450 align=middle border=1><\/a> &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/user\/utbriancl\/media\/LA_dot_map_zpsb80ae563.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/LA_dot_map_zpsb80ae563.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"LA Dot Map photo LA_dot_map_zpsb80ae563.jpg\"\/ height=450 align=middle border=1><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demographics.coopercenter.org\/DotMap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/Screen20Shot202013-08-1420at2010555120AM____zps287b15d2.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo Screen20Shot202013-08-1420at2010555120AM____zps287b15d2.png\"\/ align=left width=100><\/a><i>Color coded maps show our diversity, how we cluster by race<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Colbert talks about how he no longer sees race, but a new set of maps indicate that perhaps he isn&#8217;t in the majority. &nbsp;That being said, new racial dot maps from Virginia&#8217;s Cooper Center show our communities diversity and our continued racial segregation. The <a href=\"http:\/\/demographics.coopercenter.org\/DotMap\/index.html\">full map detail website<\/a> is apparently getting slammed right now, but I&#8217;ve grabbed a few of the images. <\/p>\n<p>Below are the maps for the Bay Area and the LA Area. You won&#8217;t be surprised to see that both communities are a vibrant mix of colors, but we still clearly cluster together on race. If you are able to get through to the <a href=\"http:\/\/demographics.coopercenter.org\/DotMap\/index.html\">full map detail website<\/a>, you can zoom in such that every dot represents a single person. It really is a beautiful expression of our diversity. H\/t to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/neighborhoods\/2013\/08\/strangely-beautiful-map-race-america\/6534\/\">the Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can click on these maps for a bigger view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/user\/utbriancl\/media\/BayArea_zps1e24cc90.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/BayArea_zps1e24cc90.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo BayArea_zps1e24cc90.jpg\"\/ height=450 align=middle border=1><\/a> &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/s15.photobucket.com\/user\/utbriancl\/media\/LA_dot_map_zpsb80ae563.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i15.photobucket.com\/albums\/a397\/utbriancl\/LA_dot_map_zpsb80ae563.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"LA Dot Map photo LA_dot_map_zpsb80ae563.jpg\"\/ height=450 align=middle border=1><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[3245,241],"class_list":["post-15164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","tag-3245","tag-241"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3WA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}