BROOKINGS - February 19, 2015
In the new book Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America,
William Frey highlights the "bottom up" demographic change that is
occurring in the United States as today's youth are considerably more
racially diverse than previous predominantly white generations. As a
result of this demographic structure, the nation faces a "cultural
generation gap." Yet these dynamics vary considerably from place to
place. The following interactive feature illustrates this point by
mapping the racial composition of different age groups at the county and
metropolitan area scales.
The map defaults to showing the share of the total county
population (all ages) that is white. Yet even among largely white
counties a different pattern emerges when selecting younger age groups
from the menu. Greater diversity can be seen among counties located in
the nation’s Southeast, Southwest and coasts. By selecting a different
race/ethnicity from the menu, maps highlighting different aspects of
this diversity associated with blacks, Hispanics, Asians and persons
with two or more races can be explored. Hovering over each county
reveals a chart depicting the extent of the "cultural generation gap" in
that county.
In addition, each of these indicators can be examined at the
metropolitan level scale, by clicking on the "metropolitan area" button.
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