{"id":3568,"date":"2007-08-08T21:56:34","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T05:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/08\/dumb-headline-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2007-08-08T21:56:34","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T05:16:22","slug":"dumb-headline-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3568","title":{"rendered":"Dumb Headline of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

This one from the AP “Whites now minority in 1 in 10 counties<\/a>.” Couldn’t this headline also be “Whites majority in 9 of 10 counties”?<\/p>\n

And it is really funny given the discussion that Rory and I were having in this thread<\/a>. I was telling him how there are many places in the northern tier of this country that are nearly all white. He was asking me if it really was that rare to see a black person in (rural) areas of the north. Here’s the comment I left. You should check out the graphs in the pdf files:<\/p>\n

It’s not so much rare as it is concentrated into segregated areas in and around major cities. Check out page 6 of this pdf file<\/a>; the map is the percent white for various counties (some would say it underestimates % white because it include Latinos who identify as white, but it demonstrates the general point). Look how many counties are 90-99% white–notice how most of them are in the north. In many states like Ohio, you can spot the counties where the bigger cities are because they are not darker blue.<\/p>\n

Now check out page 6 of this pdf file<\/a>. Look how many counties have fewer than 5% black. For that matter look how many states have no counties where more than 4.9% of the population is black–Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Hawaii. You have a few states where all but one or two counties are less than 5% black, but the dark blue counties are pretty much all in the south.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now I was specifically talking about Blacks, not people of color broadly. But there are still many counties, probably the majority where people of color are less than 10% of the populations. Even the graph, pictured in association with the article, could just as easily have made my point about how many counties are very white.<\/p>\n

If you read the article, you would like there is a huge Latino invasion, but is 1 in 10 impressive. I don’t think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This one from the AP “Whites now minority in 1 in 10 counties.” Couldn’t this headline also be “Whites majority in 9 of 10 counties”? And it is really funny given the discussion that Rory and I were having in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}