To Some People, Race Is Everything: Interactive Map Color-Codes Race of Every Single American

08/21/13

Designer behind the map gives us 5 takeaways from his project.

It sounds somewhat implausible, but a University of Virginia academic has designed an interactive map that color-codes the geographic distribution of every single American, drawing on the last census.

The Racial Dot Map uses 308,745,538 blue, green, red, and other colored dots to represent the race of every American in the place that person lives.

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