I looked up Greene County, Pennsylvania, around my little village, and it's not so much that there's maybe 1% non-white in the township, it's that there are so few people at all. The dots were very far apart, and I realized how few concentrations of people there are. You've got farm houses half a mile apart, and some clusters of houses where families have stayed together, but until you get to a region that say "Incorporation sounds like a good idea," there aren't many people there. Wide spots in the road and places where the Powers that Be said, "Well, we've got to give it some sort of name."

First, check out this pretty pup.

Also, I've been attempting to get my cousin to adopt a burro or pony. You know, finding her cute burros on the BLM website or pretty mustangs or possibly a sheltie in need of a home.

Slacktivist has a bit of a roundup post on the women religious issue.

The census tract where I grew up (Kansas City) is 39% White, 54% Black, 8% Hispanic with a population just under 3000. I think the B/W proportions were closer to 50/50 when I lived there.

The stats for where I live now shocked me until I looked at the surrounding tracts. Mine is 75% White, 6% Black, 9% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 6% other. Literally across the street is 53% White with the surrounding areas ranging from 23 - 55% White with considerably higher Black and Hispanic numbers. I think my tract probably includes more single family homes and 3 flats mixed in with the small-medium sized apartment buildings.

The population density is interesting. Where I am now (which is lower density than the surrounding areas) has twice the population of the tract where I lived in Detroit (which is higher density than the surrounding areas) and about 1/3 of the land area.

I still don't show up anywhere. You actually can see me in the 2000 census data, because I am literally the only Asian on that part of the reservation. But not on the map; I'm not enough for a dot.

But I've always lived where there basically isn't any other Asian population (if only I had known Kat when we were kids!) so it's not that startling.

All the places I've lived recently are the ubiquitous grey "other" dot. Yeah, hello, Native America!

have that short term thing on my resume.

It may be a short enough time that you can skip it on your resume, meara. Dropping the date and just using the year is your friend.

I don't know that just asking, "Did some guy knock on your door in the middle of the night?" is being accusatory.

Today is also the 13th anniversary of the Columbine tragedy.

Iron infusion went well. I never even got put in an exam room, just straight into the infusion clinic. My last infusion was last April. I really like my Hemo doc.

Catching up in Natter, read every post but didn't meara.

I've gone from living in an area that is 91% white, to 88% white, to 71% white, to 54% white, to 33% white (although I suspect that last is outdated and there are more whites in my hood now). Kind of funny to see it in black and white (and colored dots) like that.

meara, I say take the new job if it looks like a better fit. I haven't heard you say anything positive about your current job yet, that I can recall.

Connie, where are you from in Greene County? I have a bunch of ancestors from there; John Minor, "The Father of Greene County," was my Hawkins ancestor's stepfather.

Yeah, you can totally see gentrification vs. the old boundary lines ("don't cross 16th street!") in my old neighborhood--the Census tracts I was in was 18% white and 50% Hispanic, but the ones around were up to 30% white...and I KNOW that's way higher these days.

My parents' neighborhood has changed some since I lived there, too--currently 50% white, 25% black, and 25% Hispanic--there didn't used to be hardly any Hispanic people around. Oddly, a block north and the census district changes and it goes to 50% white and 50% black. No idea why none of the Hispanics are living in that particular section, it's not any different than the nearby area.

My current tract is 64% white, which I'm a bit startled by--I know there's more non-white people in this neighborhood than in many in Seattle, but I thought it was even higher than that. Just south of me is 41% but just north is 85%. Oh, the difference a few blocks makes.