U.S. Census Geography 7 Lab 8

            The three maps above show the population by county for  Asians, African Americans and Other ethnic groups. The gradient color ramp ranges in color from light colors to dark colors, this data shows where the counties with the most people are compares to the ones with the least people. The darkest counties have the most people, while the lightest counties have the least

The First Map shows the Asian Population by County and what I found really interesting about this map and was shocked was that high concentrations were not shown in this map, and I was a little puzzled, because the United States does have a high number of Asian Americans. Perhaps the number per county seems less because it is compared to the Latinos/as who in recent decades have become the large majority. 

The second map shows the African American population by county. In this map  We can see that there is a high concentration of African Americans in the Southern States of North American.  Throughout, history this was where majority of African Americans lived in the east part of North America more so than the West. Nevertheless, progressively you can see a migration of African Americans to places like California  and Nevada. 

The third map shows other population by county, The 'Other' seems to have a population that concentrates to the West of the United States. Since African Americans and Asians are already accounted for in the previous two maps, I can make the assumption that this trend is influenced by Latinos/as who heavily make part of the 'Other population' especially in the West side of North American, since it is the largest minority groups, and still growing. 

Maps such as this one in GIS can help society identify where to cater to particular populations, where schools are needed, how schools are doing, the policies that are being enacted or need to be enacted, the different facilities that are needed in specific counties so that the population in specific counties are largely helped. Data such as this can be used for numerous things including research by Universities.