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Maine Racial Equity Commission Releases Map Showing Where Minority Populations Live in State

Edward TomicBy Edward TomicDecember 13, 2024Updated:December 13, 202410 Comments3 Mins Read1K Views
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The Maine Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous & Tribal Populations (PCRITP) has released an interactive map that shows where minority populations live in the state, with additional overlays indicating various other data, such as the distribution critical infrastructure, hospitals, schools and environmental hazards.

[RELATED: Maine Racial Equity Board Sponsors Educational Walking Tours to Dispel Myth that State is โ€˜too old and too whiteโ€™…]

The project, entitled “Mapping Maine Communities,” is a prototype based on publicly available data from the American Community Survey, an ongoing yearly survey done by the U.S. Census Bureau.

In the Commission’s budgetary documents, the project is called “Mapping Maine’s Diversity.”

An updated version of the interactive mapping tool is expected to be released by the summer of 2025.

“At the Permanent Commission, our goal is to study, understand, and address racial disparities across Maine so that all people – regardless of their race, age, income, or place of birth – can live life ‘the way it should be,'” the Commission wrote introducing the map.

“To do that, we need to understand how opportunities and risks are distributed around our state, and who is most impacted by them,” they wrote.

Below is an example of how the interactive map tool looks, when only the filter for demographic (race and ethnicity) data is selected. Notably, white populations are excluded from the map.

[RELATED:ย Maine Racial Equity Commission Banned White People from Talking at Lewiston Public Meetingโ€ฆ]

The additional data overlays for the map related to infrastructure include the distribution of hospitals, child and elder care centers, parks and conserved land, and food and retail locations.

For environmental hazards, the mapping tool is able to show landfills, brownfield and Superfund sites, flood zones and major roads and highways.

The map also includes overlays related to social and economic data fields, such as housing costs and poverty rates.

The Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous & Tribal Populations (PCRITP) is an independent state agencyย establishedย by the Legislature in 2019 as a result of a bill sponsored by former House Speaker — and now State Senator — Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland).

[RELATED: Rachel Talbot Ross Has Not Been to a Meeting of Her Own DEI Commission for Six Months…]

In June, PCRITP approved a $538,168 taxpayer-funded budget for fiscal year 2025, which earmarked over $100,000 for office space, nearly $65,000 for research initiatives and about $180,000 for contract and temporary staffing positions.

That budget came in addition to a $1 million grant in federal COVID-19 relief funds awarded to PCRITP by the Mills Administration that must be spent by the Commission by the end of this year.

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Edward Tomic

Edward Tomic is a reporter for The Maine Wire based in Southern Maine. He grew up near Boston, Massachusetts and is a graduate of Boston University. He can be reached at [email protected]

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ME Infidel
ME Infidel
1 year ago

โ€œAt the Permanent Commission, our goal is to study, understand, and address racial disparities across Maine so that all people โ€“ regardless of their race, age, income, or place of birth โ€“ can live life โ€˜the way it should be,’โ€ the Commission wrote introducing the map.โ€ Aw, ainโ€™t that special?! Sounds like fourth graders wrote that.

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Knot nice
Knot nice
1 year ago

Oh oh just checked Lewiston, white Americans are the minorities what you going to do now Einstein?

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Sam
Sam
1 year ago

Picture proof of White genocide

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beachmom
beachmom
1 year ago

That’s it, keep importing the third world so we can become a third world trash heap too.

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Robert
Robert
1 year ago

What a complete waste of taxpayer money for absolutely nothing.

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Norman Linnell
Norman Linnell
1 year ago

How many of the people classified as minorities are actually illegal aliens/bogus asylum seekers ?

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Gardiner Schneider
Gardiner Schneider
1 year ago

This map is useful! Now I know that if I were to drive into Portland, Lewiston, Augusta, Bangor or Bar Harbor, I want to lock my car’s doors. This is color coding for my safety.

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mark violette
mark violette
1 year ago

Map shows the locations of colleges giving free school to meet racial quotas

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mother
mother
1 year ago

It is showing where minorities live. Everywhere without dots has only white people. I dont get why rhis seems scary

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mark violette
mark violette
1 year ago

Here are some details about the Permanent Commission’s budget:

  • State general fund: Includes $735,016 for personal services and $538,870 for other expenses
  • Federal funds: Includes $1,000,000 in one-time funding from the Maine Jobs and Recovery Plan
  • All Other funds: Used for operational expenses, professional support, and contracts
  • Maine Jobs and Recovery Plan funds: Used to develop and implement a fellowship program, and for projects that address racial disparities 
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