Thursday, February 3, 2011
By the Way New Interactive Maps Show Plenty of Segregation in Nashville and Throughout U.S.
Posted By Steve Haruch on Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:55 AM
- remappingdebate.org
A new set of interactive maps from remappingdebate.org show that much of the U.S. is still racially segregated. To wit:
In a country that is only 12.1 percent African-American, 30 percent of African-Americans live in Census Block Groups that are 75 percent African-American or more.75 percent of African-Americans in the country live in only 16 percent of the Census Block Groups in the United States.
Nashville, too, has its racial boundaries, some of which are made much more visible by these maps.
You can see the predominantly African-American north and the predominantly white southwest sectors of Nashville that are familiar features of our understanding of the city. But at a street-by-street level, you begin to really see the sectioning-off of some areas. For instance, while my own East Nashville neighborhood is reasonably diverse — and according to the map falls into the fairly broad more-than-3-percent-but-less-than-50-percent-African-American category — you can also see some pretty sharp divisions on the East Side: Gallatin and Greenfield both act as de facto dividing lines.
Elsewhere, some areas of Nashville are notable for their stark contrasts:
And others for their lack thereof:
This racial mapping thing has really caught on. First we got Eric Fischer's racial map of Nashville, then The New York Times filled in more recent data, highlighting both longstanding racial enclaves in the city and shifting demographic trends, especially along Nolensville Pike.
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