America is known as the Great Melting Pot.

But a closer look at census data shows we're a lot closer to a dinner plate--with peas here, carrots there, potatoes here, and steak over there. In other words, we still have a very high level of racial segregation.

This cool series of maps was produced by Eric Fischer, based on a map of Chicago from Bill Rankin's Radical Cartography.

Red represents white people, blue is black, green is Asian, and orange is Hispanic, and each dot is 25 people.