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"The crescent" is another way of saying "land SE of a big lake". An alternative plausible explanation is it's a half circle because the town center is on the s

"The crescent" is another way of saying "land SE of a big lake". An alternative plausible explanation is it's a half circle because the town center is on the southern end of the lake. Way too much being made of multiple sets of data points and pins on a map around a lake, without mentioning density, with a lake.

mcguire 6y ago
"While red-lining helped shape segregation in many cities, Minneapolis was pre-emptive about its discrimination; beginning in the 1910s Minneapolis real estate deeds started to include “Covenants” that explicitly excluded African Americans. A team from the University of Minnesota has been researching real estate deeds to uncover these covenants, and created this striking time-lapse of their spread:... "Racial covenants were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1948, but the effect remains; compare the racial covenant map to the racial dot map Blank referenced above — the blue (which is white people) adheres to the blue of racial covenants:... "A map of racial covenants closely matches a map of Minneapolis' population "That red cross, meanwhile, is the location of the homicide of George Floyd, in the decidedly non-blue portion of the map." I have downvoted your comment, not because there's anything specifically wrong in it, but because I cannot believe focusing on the word "crescent" and disregarding any context could be anything other than an attempt to diminish the discussion.
- sanj 6y ago
  I'm downvoting it because it is willfully, thoughtfully, and purposefully attempting to argue that there is no racially motivated correlation between these datasets. There is. Constructing a convoluted worldview in which there isn't, and promulgating it, is racism.
  - Terretta 6y ago
    > willfully, thoughtfully, and purposefully attempting to argue that there is no racially motivated correlation between these datasets. On the contrary.... I grew up in Africa. My sister is professor of African studies with degree from UW Madison. I'm familiar with the area and the issues. The "crescent" seen in the data is geography, not some sort of compelling argument for correlation. Exactly contrary to your interpretation of my comment, my point is that the same data sets are correlated everywhere there's density, but I guess "the blob" doesn't seem as persuasive as "the crescent". It's not that it's a crescent, it's just urban America. And it's a problem. PS. See also, "centuries worth of negative compounding at work": https://ofdollarsanddata.com/racial-wealth-gap/ https://ofdollarsanddata.com/racial-wealth-gap/

mcguire 6y ago

"While red-lining helped shape segregation in many cities, Minneapolis was pre-emptive about its discrimination; beginning in the 1910s Minneapolis real estate deeds started to include “Covenants” that explicitly excluded African Americans. A team from the University of Minnesota has been researching real estate deeds to uncover these covenants, and created this striking time-lapse of their spread:... "Racial covenants were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1948, but the effect remains; compare the racial covenant map to the racial dot map Blank referenced above — the blue (which is white people) adheres to the blue of racial covenants:... "A map of racial covenants closely matches a map of Minneapolis' population "That red cross, meanwhile, is the location of the homicide of George Floyd, in the decidedly non-blue portion of the map." I have downvoted your comment, not because there's anything specifically wrong in it, but because I cannot believe focusing on the word "crescent" and disregarding any context could be anything other than an attempt to diminish the discussion.

sanj 6y ago
I'm downvoting it because it is willfully, thoughtfully, and purposefully attempting to argue that there is no racially motivated correlation between these datasets. There is. Constructing a convoluted worldview in which there isn't, and promulgating it, is racism.
- Terretta 6y ago
  > willfully, thoughtfully, and purposefully attempting to argue that there is no racially motivated correlation between these datasets. On the contrary.... I grew up in Africa. My sister is professor of African studies with degree from UW Madison. I'm familiar with the area and the issues. The "crescent" seen in the data is geography, not some sort of compelling argument for correlation. Exactly contrary to your interpretation of my comment, my point is that the same data sets are correlated everywhere there's density, but I guess "the blob" doesn't seem as persuasive as "the crescent". It's not that it's a crescent, it's just urban America. And it's a problem. PS. See also, "centuries worth of negative compounding at work": https://ofdollarsanddata.com/racial-wealth-gap/ https://ofdollarsanddata.com/racial-wealth-gap/