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has better locations and the points are households, not people.

On the down side, this appears to show "white Hispanic" as white, which makes Denver look like a giant sea of sameness instead of one of the most diverse cities in the country.

That is because hispanic is not a separate race according to the census it is an ethnicity. There are white hispanics and black hispanics, etc.

I understand and reject that reasoning. When you're mapping diversity, put me and my pasty-white Anglo-Dutch ancestry and my neighbors who grew up in Mexico in different categories.

And that is your right, you can make your own map, the census is freely available. It isn't a 'diversity' map, it is a map showing census data for race, income, household size and age, not ethnicity.

> "you can make your own map"

or use the one in the original post. I'm just clarifying why I prefer that map over the one you linked to.

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