Blog Post 4
For my map I used NGIS to produce county level data from 1910 regarding total population, race and poverty (income relative to poverty level). I created layers on the map to show race/nativity demographics in the total population and farm ownership by race/nativity. I chose to join farm ownership data with race/nativity demographics to see how farm ownership could be relative to race and have direct effects on wealth disparities in the country. I most struggled to export my layers to a new geodatabase to make them permanent. In Chapter 11, Monmonier discusses how the different choices you make when creating your map have a direct effect on how the information is perceived by the audience. In my map I used graduated colors to emphasize the differences of the races of farm ownership in different parts of the country. I chose to keep the colors of the different races the same when shown on the map as to not mislead people into biases or extremes when perceiving the maps. Race Farm Owner