“…Relationships between race, ethnicity, social class and health have been found through time, across space, and for nearly every health condition (Wilkinson, 1996; Phelan et al , 2004; Heffernan, 2002). To explain these inequalities, researchers are looking toward geography and the impacts that place has on health (Macintyre et al , 2002; Fitzpatrick and M LaGory, 2000; Gatrell et al , 2004; Mullen, 1990; Laskar, 1999). Within the field of sociology, spatial inequality is a small, but growing sub‐specialty (Tickamyer, 2000; Lobao and Saenz, 2002).…”