One of the most frequent observations from people who have recently viewed our new Racial Dot Map is the presence of these “little green boxes” scattered throughout the country. The map displays a single dot for every person counted during the 2010 Census and every dot on the map is color-coded by race and ethnicity: non-Hispanic whites = blue; African-Americans = green; Asians = red; Hispanics = orange; and all other races = brown. These peculiar green boxes on the map can be found everywhere and seem oddly out of place:
In a suburb of Philadelphia:
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