By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria: For this assignment, you will take a closer look at income inequality as well as differences in racial distribution. You will then discuss potential connections between income inequality and racial population distributions and patterns of segregation within this context. You will use actual data drawn from the 2000 Census of the United States to compare the places you have lived with the national distribution. You will also examine some other places in Mississippi and South Dakota. Why these places? Explore and you will see. Crunch the numbers, reflect on them, and answer the questions that follow. For this assignment, you will complete two tables, one representing distributions of incomes and another representing distributions of racial or ethnic groups. See to access the spreadsheet you will fill out for this assignment. After you fill out the tables, answer the questions under For this assignment in order to submit a complete assignment.
