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The Figure-Ground of Race in Washington, DC
- DanAndersen 12y ago>The flaw with this map is that it shows dominance over diversity. Farther out in the suburbs racial neighborhood divisions are less sharp. This is a pretty serious flaw, as it's assigning a winner-takes all color to each building. Is the data available to do color-blending to show proportions of different races? Also, whenever I see a map like this, I wonder if there's a way to take the current state of a region, and combine it with Schelling's segregation model ( http://nifty.stanford.edu/2014/mccown-schelling-model-segregation/ http://nifty.stanford.edu/2014/mccown-schelling-model-segreg... ) to estimate the percentage of similar neighbors desired.
- cafard 12y agoI guess that it correctly represents the predominant race of my block, but with the qualification that a) the split is probably about 60/40, and b) diversity goes to the household level.
- PaulHoule 12y agoI'd say it fits my intuition of walking around in DC.
- TheCoelacanth 12y agoMine as well. With the exception of Capitol Hill and the sliver of the NW quadrant lying to the east of Rock Creek Park, it fits almost exactly into the commonly accepted rule of thumb that SE and NE are predominately black while NW and Virginia are predominately white.