Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

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    The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik

    Small quibble: might be worth it to mention which Metro we’re actually seeing here as an example.

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    Davis X. Machina

    One look at Boston and some of its fraught recent history leaps out at one.

    Also, Quincy. It’s no surprise that where once Shipbuilders Local S5 was, is now a Buddhist temple.

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    MikeJ

    The house passed a bill to get rid of the survey section of the census, so this may be the last time work like this can be done.

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    The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik

    @mistermix:

    I figured that out after some back linking, but I meant that just a minor tag under the picture or something in the post itself might be worth it.

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    Napoleon

    For a moment I thought the map he used was Cleveland, then I realized it had black people where you would find the Poles and eastern Europeans.

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    ThresherK

    Great addition. Several years ago I remember a time-lapse set in the NYT showing changing ethnicities in the top 10 or 20 cities (edit) over 50 or 100 years.

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    Suffern ACE

    @MikeJ: No. This part they’ll keep. It’s the part about driving they’ll get rid of. Political parties have an interest in keeping track of this because of voting and gerrymandering.

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    Mnemosyne

    Another interesting way to show the data would be to do it by foreign-born vs. native-born. My city shows up in statistics as “mostly white,” but many of the white folks are immigrants from Armenia.

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    Rathskeller

    I was really startled a few years back when I moved from Manhattan to Berkeley, and started apartment hunting. Fueled, no doubt, by their experience with white college students over the years, many landlord’s first question was “Are you black?” Even in this reflexively liberal, somewhat neurotic town, you cannot get away from self-segregation, and discomfort caused by race, class, and education differences.

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    Linnaeus

    The map of my hometown (Detroit) is unsurprising in that it still shows a sharp (but slowly changing) division between black and white residents along 8 Mile Road. The small but growing Hispanic community (if I’m reading the colors right) is interesting.

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    divF

    These are great maps. Part of the fun is to try to interpret the details if your are a local. Some examples from the San Francisco / Oakland / Berkeley map.

    (1) The population density in San Francisco / South San Francisco is much higher than anywhere else. This in spite of the fact that most of the housing stock consists of buildings of no more than three stories.

    (2) The Asian concentration around Fremont probably has a large South Asian (Indian / Pakistani) component.

    (3) The visible concentration of Asians right around the Berkeley campus is consistent with their substantial presence in the student population.

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    piratedan

    was nifty seeing yellow on the Tucson map indicating where the local Rez are surrounded by a sea of Orange.

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    Amanda in the South Bay

    @divF:

    Well, for me its the San Jose map. Its pretty accurate. Lots of Asian (both E Asian and S Asian) in Cupertino/Sunnyvale/Santa Clara-ish, lots of Hispanics in East PA/the poor part of Menlo Park, East San Jose pretty diverse with lots of Asians (wish that could be a bit more granular with regards to South vs East Asian) and Hispanics. White everywhere else.

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    Larv

    I love stuff like this; I could spend hours flipping between these and Google maps. My only quibble is with the colors – with red/White, yellow/Other, and orange/Hispanic it’s hard to tell if a given area is Hispanic or White/Other. Maybe he could have used a neutral color like grey or tan for Other?

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    Origuy

    @divF:

    The Asian concentration around Fremont probably has a large South Asian (Indian / Pakistani) component.

    Also Afghan. There’s a substantial community in the Centerville district.

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    Fezzik

    The most interesting thing, I think, is the sharp contrast between “established” cities and boomtowns. Consider how much more segregated things appear in the old manufacturing cities and along the seaboard than in, say, Las Vegas. There’s still self-segregation in these “newer” cities, of course, but it’s nowhere near as dramatic.

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    danielx

    Note:

    Data presentations of this nature soon to be unavailable if House Republicans have their way, which is something that would make life difficult if not impossible for a host of businesses, nonprofits and givernmental concerns:

    nytimes.com/2012/05/20/sunday-review/the-debate-over-the-american-community-survey.html

    Here’s the money line from Daniel Webster (R-asshat):

    “This is a program that intrudes on people’s lives, just like the Environmental Protection Agency or the bank regulators,” said Daniel Webster, a first-term Republican congressman from Florida who sponsored the relevant legislation.

    This guy is a dumb fuck to rival George Tierney of Greenville, South Carolina.

    Yes, the Census Bureau, the EPA and bank regulators have all been making my life a living hell with their constant intrusion and harassment – not. If the EPA and bank regulators are making the likes of Enron and Jamie Dimon miserable…more of this please, and soon.

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    SectarianSofa

    @mistermix That song makes me sad. Thanks for ruining my life, asshole!

    (But for reals, nice post — and I like the surreal colors to races assignments.)

    Blue is black, red is white….

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