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Looks like being sarcastic did not help. Then let me put it straight: it looks like  having a good mix of different races in the county, is not enough, and you demand a better mix of races in various "districts"? Where does that end? sub-districts? sub-sub-districts? a few streets? one street? a few houses? one house?

[b]To me, as long as people are not forced to live somewhere based on race, then there is no "segregation" issue[/b]. e.g. if people can't afford a house somewhere, that is not segregation - if too many people can't afford a house that becomes a social issue but it is not segregation. [/quote]

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Well, then please go ahead and define your "segregation" issue. Please be sure to tell people what size of a "district/area/neighborhood" you choose to measure the race composition, and why such a size is chosen over others.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/10/diversity-race-ethnicity-united-states-america-interactive-map/[/quote]

1. It needs subscription to read. I could just barely see the map for a glance before it asks me to sign up.

2. That does not answer the question.

When drawing the map, one can choose one's own binning size. If I choose, e.g. a county as the smallest bin, then MoCo does not have a race composition that stands out from other "counties". 
If I choose a smaller bin, maybe certain "bins" within our county would stand out as having more white or more black. But the question is, how "fine" or how "coarse" should one choose the bin, and WHY?

In other words, how "UNIFORM" the race composition does one need before one stops picking on this "segregation" issue?[/quote]

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