Red is white, blue is black and orange is Hispanic

​ Here’s a map of Houston, showing where the city’s whites, blacks and Hispanics live. It’s put together using the most recent census information, by a digital cartographer named Eric Fischer.

It looks like races and ethnicities live separately from each other, but check out some other cities.

Detroit:

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Or Washington, DC:

The UK Guaradian said of us: “The Texan city becomes diverse spreading out from the centre,” which sounds very British indeed.

This article appears in Sep 23-29, 2010.