What do you notice about this graphic?

[Akita Suggagaki]

It actually is a good indicator of how racist policies (or policies that started out as racist and migrated to being merely classist) have shaped certain aspects of American society.

Interesting. Say more.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Interesting. Say more.

When racial discrimination was legal, whites barred blacks from a number of things, including public amenities and social services. When racial discrimination was outlawed and integration enforced, many whites started trying to pull back on those services altogether, because they didn’t want to pay for blacks to enjoy them. This wound up denying those services to poor whites as well. Well known examples of this are the closing of public pools post integration. Virginia even shut down some public schools.

Over time, the negative attitudes towards public services lost their overtly racial tone, which was replaced by a facade of economic libertarianism. Whether or not the motivations continue to be racialized, they are at the very least heavily influenced by a desire to deny aid to an undeserving class of Others, which has negative effects on lots of people, including many who seek to enforce the hierarchy.

The general concept is the subject of the books The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee and Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl.

 

[rambot]

Where exactly are these images from and why should we trust them? I notice that the map Ana the Ist posted showed STDs and diabetes differently from the map you did (to be fair, yours said "venereal disease" and his said "STDs" so perhaps the other STDs were more common in the other states). So whose chart should be trusted?

But let's show another map, which may make some people a little uncomfortable when viewed in conjunction with the maps you showed. The key is unfortunately not in the image itself (one can find it on the page though, Six maps that reveal America’s expanding racial diversity) but it's based om places that have a high presence of racial minorities.
Brown: Blacks
Blue: Asians, Native Hawaiians, an d Other Pacific Islanders
Light blue: American Indians/Alaska Natives
Green: Hispanics
Light green: Two or more minorities
White: No minority is highly represented

So here we go:

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One notices the interesting fact that the "bad" maps you posted correspond rather strongly to where we see racial minorities being prominent, especially blacks.

Indeed, it seems that a white supremacist could quite happily use your charts to prove their claims of non-white people, particularly blacks, being inferior. But I have the feeling that you (and presumably whoever made that image to begin with) would disagree on that.

Disclaimer: I'm not a white supremacist. Just pointing out how easily a white supremacist could turn the argument around and use it to support their beliefs.

Haha. It's not citizens but leadership that is thr concern.
If those majority black and minority population are still being ruled over by the "good old boys", I'm sure they would be fine with poorly leading.

That's actually a sensible reason for such ineffective government in the south.

 

[SeventhFisherofMen]

https://imgur.com/bszCCuB

Which correlations concern you. Mine is everything connected to education.

reminds me of a math problem in statistics.

The teacher shared that there were more shark attacks on the same days and areas as ice cream sales. Turned out the hidden factor was temperature, the hotter it was the more people were buying ice cream and the more people were swimming. NOT that ice cream sales led to more shark attacks.