How railroads, highways and other man-made lines racially divide America’s cities

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Here's the map referenced in the article:

http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html

Here's the link to the article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/16/how-railroads-highways-and-other-man-made-lines-racially-divide-americas-cities/?hpid=z1


Like many metaphors, "the other side of the tracks" was originally a literal epithet. Blacks were often historically restricted to neighborhoods separated from whites by railroads, turning the tracks into iron barriers of race and class.