[OC] Percentage of births where both parents were Black, among all births with at least one Black parent. Counties with under 100,000 persons are aggregated together by state, which is why many state boundaries appear artificially distinct).

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1. Were small counties treated as state averages because of unreliable or lack of data?

2. Black and white scale i feel is the obvious choice here

3. How does this compare to the black population per capita? It seems like both parents will be black much more frequently in areas where a higher % of the total population is black, right?

4. Why do you Americans always have so much focus on skin color? 🙄

5. What if both parents are mixed tho?

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7. If you have some state level variables (due to lack of data) you should NOT show them with county lines. It is deceptive. You should instead have a mixed state/county plot or aggregate everything to state level.

8. Someone might interpret the color red in the context green yellow and red like red is bad and green is good. Better to use different colors.

9. So curious what reason OP started looking into this for?!

10. Weld County CO surprises me

11. Chesterfield County MO pulling the weight for the entire Midwest (shout out to the 1% black population skewing the data)

12. You need to remove the county lines for the aggregated counties, since they’re not actually individually identified.

13. First map showing Minnesota and Georgia as about the same color!

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