Red represents White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot represents 25 people. Houston seems fairly diverse compared to some other cities such as Detroit. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315078/Race-maps-America.html
i saw this the other day- yes, i found it interesting that Houston seemed to be not only the most diverse, but the most integrated of any major US city. compare NYC, LA, Chicago (and as you say Detroit), Dallas, etc to Houston, and the difference is striking.
A lot of the white people in Katy, Mo city, Woodlands and Sugar land areas as expected... Is that Pearland with all the Black people there in the middle? I thought there would be more Whites there.
It is the presentation of information for others to discuss. Like how the evening news usually just presents information.
I ask myself that about the Daily Mail all the time. I'm guessing there's intentionally no specific point. Racial diversity is an important topic to a lot of people, this is just seeing the demographics in mapped picture form. Integration works when everybody is doing it, not just small pockets of people. I think instead of working on identity so much, its just learning to ACCEPT, RESPECT, and ADAPT. We're always gonna have just that slightest bit of preference towards those that closely resemble ourselves cuz its simply what we IDENTIFY with. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Just have to keep force-feeding the importance of tolerance of other people different from us into our collective mentalities, and stop FEARING our neighbors! So what if there's big thick blocks of ethnicity if at MOST they're just doing bad things marginally more than the next group. I'm gonna always concentrate on the overwhelming majority of people that just want to work and feed their family than the little segments of bad guys in each ethnicity. Don't just stop all Muslim threats, stop ALL threats. Anyways, interesting graph
it's reporting, not "journalism." form your own opinion, or context. i found it interesting, and unexpected, that for instance, Houston is more racially integrated than New York. depending on one's point of view, you might take that as a repudiation of the (common) east coast trope about racist texans/southerners.
Now that's lazy. A large commercial center with high minority density, high minority-unemployment and one of longest home-to-work commute times in the country pretty much confirms every post-slavery racial trope out there. The smoking gun of just about every minority problem can be traced to racial distribution.
There look to be some areas that are mixed, but a lot of areas are very highly concentrated one race only. NYC is probably more so, unless it's changed a lot since I've lived there.
You can see a mapping of NYC if you click the link in the original post. Houston's still segregated but it is much less so then some other shown in the link.
It's human nature to live close to those you can relate with, whether it be skin color, personality, etc. People want to be comfortable not in a perpetual state of unease. This shouldn't surprise people. I don't think it has anything to do with racism, but human instinct. It's no different in the animal kingdom where several of the same sub species congregate and avoid other parts of their close relatives.
I'd be interested to see how this changes with the 2010 census data. Also, many times where you live (and the color of your neighbor's skin) doesn't depict racial or ethnic demographics accurately. The people you work with and who you socialize with give a clearer picture. I live in a predominantly white neighborhood yet associate frequently with people that are not white. This map doesn't reflect that.
