Is Madison the Future of America?

post on Madison.  This map shows whites in blue, blacks in green, hispanics in yellow, and Asians in red.  Notice that blacks and hispanics live on the edges of Madison, and whites and Asians live in the core areas.  I am pretty sure this is almost unique in non-Manhattan America (but common in places like France.)  Perhaps it’s a sign of things to come, if gentrification continues.  The blank areas are lakes, and the dark blue/red isthmus is the downtown area.

One explanation for this anomalous pattern might be that other similar cities have had black residents for many decades, whereas Madison received an inflow of black resident only recently.  For instance my birthplace (Lansing) is a similar size city containing the state capital and a big university, just like Madison. But it has had numerous black residents for a long time, and they tend to live right in the city. I believe that pattern is much more common.

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