Racial maps of the USA

[Riverskier]

i'm not moving to compton

No kidding!

 

[deadheadskier]

i'm not moving to compton

No kidding!

You guys being from Maine will appreciate this.

Another contributing factor towards location / distribution of race are 'refugee host cities'. In Maine, Lewiston and Portland are both such cities.

Lewiston is a city of roughly 35K. The Somali population is over 5K. That's significant in a state that is 97% white.

 

[riverc0il]

Well, actually....

General population
The racial composition of the US population as of 2008 was 79.79% White American (65.60% non-Hispanic and 14.19% Hispanic), 12.84% African American (12.22% non-Hispanic and 0.62% Hispanic), 4.45% Asian American (4.35% non-Hispanic and 0.10% Hispanic), 1.01% American Indian or Alaska Native (0.76% non-Hispanic and 0.25% Hispanic), 0.18% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander American (0.14% non-Hispanic and 0.04% Hispanic), and 1.69% Multiracial American (1.64% non-Hispanic and 0.05% Hispanic). 15.25% of the total US population identified their ethnicity as Hispanic.
Prison population...
The racial composition of the US prison and jail population as of 2008 was 33.44% White American (non-Hispanic), 20.29% Hispanic, 40.21% African American (non-Hispanic), and 6.06% Other (American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander American, and Multiracial American)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States

Can we get a cross reference against economic status and college education? Let's also not over look that those with poor prospects for economic gains are more likely to turn towards criminal activity more likely to land them in jail. Juries are more likely to commit drug offenses than white collar crime. Let's look at poor whites on par with poor blacks in economic status instead of all whites and all blacks. Not comparative. Are there built in systematic issues at work that make it difficult for blacks to advance economically? Yes. But those same issues are in place for poor whites too. There just happened to be fewer poor whites than poor blacks to begin with. There are systematic issues at work and to a limited extent racism is not gone and will likely always be something the criminal justice system needs to look out for. But there is something else at play here that is not intentional nor completely systematic. A historic starting place economically negative effects all races.

 

[mondeo]

Whatever. You know best.

42% of states have laws against employment discrimination with regard to sexual orientation. No states that begin with the letter A have such laws. Obviously, being in a state that begins with the letter A causes that state to not pass these laws.

Cattle rustling, I'd guess, is a charge that has whites representing more than 80% of the convictions. Embezzelment, same story. Juries in these cases must be biased against whites. It can't be that in rural populations where cattle rustling occurs whites make up more than 80% of the population, or positions in companies where embezzeling becomes easier tend to be more predominantly white.

Glass ceiling for women is another classic example of statistics abuse. Obviously, the percentage of women CEOs right now is indicitive of current discrimination, not 30-40 years ago when the current crop of CEOs started working.

riverc0il was probably clearer in his explanation of the point I was trying to get at. But you'll never see a multivariate study of crime rate with income, race, educational background, etc. Partly because a lot of the necessary data isn't collected (income for convicted offenders, for example,) partly because it's so complex a system to actually seperate the influence of race for, and partly because the results from such a study would be correspondingly complex to the point that it wouldn't see the light of day outside of a social sciences journal.

 

[skiNEwhere]

i wonder how many of those caucasians in nyc are italiano's like myself