Remapping Debate website has these new interactive maps which highlight the racial segregation in America. In these maps you can zoom to the census block group level, which is a smaller geographical division than the census tracts. In this way you are able to see the segregation in smaller area which census tracts fail to show.I highly recommend playing around with these to see some visual display of diversity or the lack of.
Key findings of the report show that
“75 percent of African-Americans in the United States live in only 16 percent of the country’s Census Block Groups.”
“30 percent of African-Americans live in Census Block Groups that are 75 percent African-American or more.”
A zoom in snap shot of Seattle from interactive maps below shows racially segregated blocks.
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