Maps show racial breakdown of American cities

[monster]

This is the blob of whites in the middle of Detroit.

[gvidas]

Originally Posted by monster

This is the blob of whites in the middle of Detroit.

I thought so for a while, but Wayne State is relatively small; and as a cultural center, the Cass Corridor was also a large player in the civil rights movement. It's actually the tiny dot of not-blue further south-southwest, which is small enough not to show clearly on my edited map. I'm more struck by the solidity and length of the white/black split down 8-Mile road.

The main blob of whites is Hamtramck, a city notable for its diversity and recent influx of middle easterners. The two statistics I heard about it, which I've not verified at all, were that in total, students at the Hamtramck highschool spoke something on the order of 60 different languages, and that it was the largest Iraqi population outside of Iraq. A more solid, wikipedia-verified statistic, puts its population at 41% foreign-born.

I feel like these maps are sort of weirdly politicized and not informative enough: red, blue, and yellow on white doesn't give a even range of visual information; a person's address of record is only one part of their story, or the story of their community.