Race and ethnicity in Atlanta, in dots

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Photographer Eric Fischer recently took 2000 U.S. Census data and created racial and ethnic maps of 40 cities including New York, Sacramento and Miami. The San Francisco photog was inspired by cartographer Bill Rankin's similar map based on race and income of Chicago. What Fischer created offers a bird's-eye-view of how people settle in different areas — and how some cities are quite diverse while others are still clustered according to race and ethnicity. (For a glaring example, look at Detroit.)

In Fischer's map of Atlanta above (click here to view), red is White, blue is Black, green is Asian, orange is Hispanic and gray is Other. Each dot represents 25 people. One doesn't have to point out the very obvious distinction between white and black. (Interesting that similar north-south divides are in Columbus and Augusta).

Thanks to metro Atlanta's lack of geographical boundaries, it's hard to gauge exact locations of neighborhoods and areas. People have started making notes on the Flickr image and pointing out such landmarks as Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and, thanks to what appears to be a large Hispanic population, Buford Highway. I'm guessing that red cluster of dots snaking below the north-south divide are such neighborhoods as Cabbagetown, Reynoldstown and Grant Park?

(H/T to Gawker and Fast Company)