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“Where does it end? Is HUD going to call for a breakup of Vermont and Maine because they are 95 percent white?” Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, in a New York Daily News op-ed last year, arguing that residents’ income, not race, determines...

“Where does it end? Is HUD going to call for a breakup of Vermont and Maine because they are 95 percent white?” Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, in a New York Daily News op-ed last year, arguing that residents’ income, not race, determines where they live.

But our map suggests otherwise.

Here, the darker the blue, the more African-American households there are in a certain area. One shows Westchester as it is today. The other shows what Westchester would look like if African-American households were located near white households of the same income.

For the full interactive map, click here: http://propub.ca/STCvTO

# posted November 13, 2012
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    maybe income is a function of race
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