Americans: How ethnically diverse is YOUR city??

[Venetia]

How ethnically diverse is YOUR city??

Step 1: Go to here: http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html

Step 2: Wait like 4,000 years for it to load (seriously it's forever) (if it 404's, just try again in a few mins)

Step 3: Zoom all the way into your city where you live, then zoom out 1 step, take a screenshot, and post it here. Don't center the image on where you live; make it an estimation of the city you're in (or the one you're closest to). Also turn off the street names & labels (if you want). You don't have to tell us what city it is if you don't want to.

Step 4: Compare cities


Legend of colors:

(Note that I believe middle easterners are also red (Asian). There are like zero Chinese/Korean/Japanese/etc. people living around me, but TONS of Indians, Pakistanis, middle-easterners, so that's why I think they grouped it that way. A lot of middle-eastern people identify themselves as Asian ... Because they're from Asia.)


Note: I think this only works for the continental U.S. It's based off census data. If you're not American but want to join in, just do whatever city you feel like, IDC

 

[Venetia]

Tampa:

I live in an area that's basically multi-colored confetti ... Literally it's like a perfect blend of all races in my neighborhood. Interestingly, there's pretty much NEVER crime here.


Sad thing is, the green areas are some of the most dangerous and scummy areas of Tampa. Nothing but violent crime out of there. Sorry, black people . But the MOST dangerous part ("Suitcase City") is that area towards the middle with the big cross-looking intersection; lower-left quadrant. The area where it's mostly blue & orange confetti. That's where the cuban cartel dudes are for the most part. And probably the white people who're addicted to this-or-that.

The far right, where it's sparse blue, is where all the redneck bigots are. The kind you see protesting mosques and treating Mexicans like shit.

The large blobs of red are actually noting areas where companies bought entire communities of condos to lease to people they paid to come over from India/Pakistan and work for call centers for minimum wage (I am not joking; more and more are doing this to avoid penalties for farming jobs overseas).

Tampa has a large Cuban population, though I was surprised they're all lumped together so heavily. The lower-mid-left with the lots of orange are middle class (with some upper-middle to the west, and a bit of lower class towards the south) towns & areas. The Cubans here are largely small business owners.

The fringes of blue around the bay at the south are where the "elite" live though ... The doctors, high-power lawyers, celebrities, millionaires.

Our "downtown" is where the white starburst-looking shape is towards the bottom. It's a pretty small downtown for such a populous city.

There's one squarish block in the upper-mid-right, which basically is just a spotty blue blob ... That's where the city gets most of its meth! Whee


Pretty interesting to look at, anyway. Annoying that so many things fall so neatly into stereotypes.

 

[Glitchfinder]

Welcome to Orange County, California:

Red area in the center is Irvine. Golden area to the right is a combination of Tustin/Santa Ana, the red area beyond that is Garden Grove and Westminster. The blue area along the coast is Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, and a bit of Long Beach. The blue area north of the golden area is Orange. (And Villa Park, which is entirely surrounded by Orange. And has no streetlights. At all.) The bit where the gold and red mix is Anaheim. Crime-wise, the golden areas are the worst, Irvine is one of the best in the nation (at least in terms of violent crime), and I don't know particularly much aside from that. In terms of relative wealth, Orange county is a sliding scale in this order: Gold->Red->Blue, with some of the blue along the coast being one of the richest places, per capita, in the entire country.

Edit: Totally forgot the stuff to the southeast of Irvine: that's Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, Laguna Niguel, San Juan Capistrano, Rancho Santa Margarita, and Dana Point (that's the only mostly solid color, and it's blue. Of course.)

There's a bunch of cities I didn't list, but they're a lot smaller and show up in smaller text on the map and tend to be lumped in with the ones I did mention.

Also, if you're wondering what that big blob of empty is to the southeast of Irvine (not the one kind of between it and Tustin), that's the Orange County Great Park, formerly the El Toro Marine Base, and is one of the biggest "parks" in the country not categorized as a state or national park. Technically, it's owned by the county, but Irvine's been making huge pushes toward claims of owning it, which I don't like. The big empty blob to the left of Irvine is a former air base, the Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, and it's also been decommissioned. And is home to these:

Spoiler

(That's 192 feet tall, or 59m to you Brits. And it's built with a wood frame.)

 

[Glitchfinder]

Also, I would just like to note: I work in that red area, and I have found that shopping stereotypes regarding Asians are nothing but bald fact, so long as they have an accent. If their family has been here long enough that they don't, they typically shop like a white person instead. There have been a few exceptions to this, but so few that they very much qualify as an exception rather than the rule. (And this is regarding East Asians and Indians. Especially Indians)

And regarding those stereotypes, here's a relevant quote from me, from Skype, about a month and a half ago:

Sean Porter doesn't want to program today, and he spent too long dealing with petty, pernicious, puerile, penny-pinching customers to not want to blow off steam at some point.

(That was a /me emote)

 

[coyotecraft]

Kansas is mostly small clusters of blue dots. There's a couple small towns in the corner that are Hispanic.

Spoiler: Kansas

Where I went to school.

Nearby city of Salina. Under 50,000 people.

 

[Sauk]

 

[Glitchfinder]

Pacific Islander is one of the ones that replaced.

 

[bacon]

fact that has absolutely nothing to do with this

If there is a questioniarre at the beginning of a test that asks a person's race, most minorities will score significantly lower than if not asked their race.
Should of been more specific this ws done in america

 

[Glitchfinder]

fact that has absolutely nothing to do with this

If there is a questioniarre at the beginning of a test that asks a person's race, most minorities will score significantly lower than if not asked their race.

It's not a matter of scoring. This is from the US Census. In other words, the government sent people door to door in an attempt to gather data on every person in the country, as our constitution dictates we do once every ten years.

 

[bacon]

fact that has absolutely nothing to do with this

 

[Sauk]

Pacific Islander is one of the ones that replaced.

Oh Americans, you and your lack of understanding.

/end de-rail sorry ven and everyone else

 

[coyotecraft]

You've never heard of Native American tribes like Iroquois, Apache, Cherokee? I had a guy in my college design class named Running-Bear, who lived on a reservation. It's like, my grandma's grandma was a Hopi Indian. Ethnicity Race doesn't really count for anything but looks. Like when someone says they are Japanese, they really mean their great-grandparents came from Japan, but they themselves have never been to Japan and know just as much about it's culture and language as what the TV can tell them.

 

[Sauk]

I was more pointing out how it looks like they're saying that Native American isn't distinct enough to be considered a separate "race" in their understanding of what race is(trust me, I'm the last person to hold the belief the humans have biological races).

 

[Glitchfinder]

I was more pointing out how it looks like they're saying that Native American isn't distinct enough to be considered a separate "race" in their understanding of what race is(trust me, I'm the last person to hold the belief the humans have biological races).

There aren't enough of them left for that, really.

 

[Sauk]

I've read that the native pop. is increasing at a fast pace actually (unless that's just in Canada).

 

[Venetia]

I was more pointing out how it looks like they're saying that Native American isn't distinct enough to be considered a separate "race" in their understanding of what race is(trust me, I'm the last person to hold the belief the humans have biological races).

IIRC, Native Americans who live on reservations are not required to answer the census, so approximations are done. I assume whomever did the map wanted to note that for any odd patches of brown dots in or around reservation land.

 

[Sauk]

Ah that makes sense.

 

[Venetia]

I've read that the native pop. is increasing at a fast pace actually (unless that's just in Canada).

Depends on the area. Many reservations experience extremely depressed economies and their pop. growth plateaus or goes into decline. This especially happens in the midwest.

The northwestern reservations and occasional southeastern ones are generally on better land, and their populations have increased (though not very quickly necessarily).

Many also have simply left reservations, and have often intermixed, so it's harder to count.

The U.S. really treats the native people like crap TBH. Independent-yet-not; most of them given only a pittance of shit-ass land and the occasional hand-out. Some were smart with casinos and contractor gigs which skirt local state laws, though.

 

[Sauk]

We basically still call natives "savages" in Canada so I mean we're really no better in that regard.

 

[coyotecraft]

Are the terms Race and Ethnicity interchangeable? This gave me such a headache. I though one would describe just physical appearance. But when I did a quick search this morning is seemed like both were a combination of culture, geography, and appearance.