Discussion/Impressions

Overall, ArcGIS proved to be a highly insightful method of analyzing the population. What I would like to do is cross analyze these maps with data that reflects unemployment rate and then another one that cross analyzes race with poverty percentages. I would like to see the comparisons between locations, poverty, employment, and race and possible trends that may appear thanks to the color coding and "join" options in ArcGIS.

All Others

The pattern in "all other races" bears much more of a resemblance to the Asian map than the black map. Strong concentrations show up in areas of large population and often quality weather. These are most ideal conditions for living and for working opportunities, so this is not surprising. There is a large concentration in Southern California that carries up into the Silicon Vally, as well as throughout southern and western Texas and in the Seattle area in Washington. All of the regions are areas of high productivity and job opportunity.

Black

Rank in black population are heavily concentrated in the south east and mid-west. This is likely a historical reflection of the area bearing similarities to population trends as far back as colonial times and through the period where these states were mostly slave states. The heavy population does not reach down into Florida, which belonged to Spain for much of the aforementioned period and then went on to become a vacation hot-spot for predominantly wealthy, Caucasian people.

Asian

The visual breakdown of shifts in the Asian population across the United States is not particularly surprising. The areas of most movement are by far Hawaii and along the west coast, or the areas closest to Asia. Splotches of other concentrated movement appear to be around the areas of major cities on the east coast as well as Texas. Alaska's tip and Hawaii are probably red due to their proximity to Asian nations and this trend of convenient location carries over to the west coast. Most other areas of darker color are highly populated in general and probably have greater job opportunities than the lighter areas, making them more appealing.

Lab 6

The area I selected is a small part of south-central California, or "the valley."

Extent Information: 
Top- 37.6786111104Left- -118.984444445Right- -117.911666668Bottom- 36.7841666659



The geographic coordinate system is North American, 1983. It uses angular units (degree, 0.017453292519943295) and the D_North_American_1983 datum.

Map 1: Hillshade

Map 2: Slope