This Map Of Race In America Is Pretty Freaking Awesome

Check out America's racial makeup in technicolor.

Dustin Cable, a demographic researcher at the University of Virginia, made this map of the races and ethnicities of 308,745,538 Americans (approximate population). After gathering data from the 2010 U.S. Census, he plotted each color-coded dot on a map.

Here's New York City (all maps use the same color key as the map above):

Boston:

The San Francisco Bay Area:

Los Angeles:

Houston:

Baton Rouge:

Chicago:

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