This map of New York City, produced by photographer Eric Fischer, is colour-coded by race: Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot represents 25 people. Compare it to this one of San Francisco – a far more integrated city:
38 more US cities available to view on Fischer’s Flickr page.
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