These Maps Reveal The Racial Makeup Of San Francisco And Silicon Valley

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A few days ago, we published a piece exploring homelessness in Silicon Valley.

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So now let's look at racial diversity throughout America's tech heartland.

Dustin Cable, a demographic researcher at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, recently published an interactive map showcasing geographic distribution, population density, and racial diversity throughout America.

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We first saw the map over on Wired.

The map draws on data from the 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot represents a person. In total, there are 308 million dots on the map.

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Whites are represented with blue dots, African-Americans with green dots, Asians with red dots, Latinos with orange dots, and "Other" races with brown dots. It turns out that Asians over-index within the Silicon Valley area.