One day after the anniversary of the 50th March on Washington for civil rights, I am struck by a few things.
At the foot of the greatest living Republican President, Lincoln not Reagan, not a single GOP legislator spoke. Sure we heard from three Democratic Presidents, but the Bush league was absent. Health problems, probably.
President William Jefferson Clinton said something that made me almost weep in my car. Since I was driving and not taking notes, it went something like this – “…how is it possible that in our great democracy it is easier to buy an assault weapon than it is to vote…”
And now, for all you cartographers out there, who were wondering if our country’s racial divide still exists in our now post-civil rights era. more fully integrated, land of the free…. Here is a little work of tremendous art, a Pointillism-type of a color-coded map of the USA.
Drawn from our 2010 Census of all 308.7 million Americans. Here is ONE dot per person In this racial profile:
- White pixels are blue,
- Black pixels are green
- Asian pixels are red
- Hispanic pixels are brown
So play around on the site. Big green dots in rural areas usually mean it’s a prison. Try and find where the blue and green dots intersect to make teal in your neighborhood. Who the heck needs those voter’s rights laws after all?
http://www.coopercenter.org/demographics/Racial-Dot-Map
Here is our weekly Cville’s map done around UVA by the Demographics & Workforce Group at UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
In Charlottesville, 10th Street Northwest shows up as a dividing line between mostly white Corner blocks and the almost all-black 10th and Page neighborhood, and the highest concentration of Asians surround UVA’s Darden School and medical center.
