Where Are Racist, Hateful Tweets Coming From? TYT

[AsahinaKimi]

[Sand Wind]

1. It's look like all the east part of USA...I'm a little bit surprise. Nt.

[BillyRibs]

8. Not Me,

I'm just amazed at the level of fear coming from the rather Affluent Middle class.

[StrayKat]

2. Actual Map

The actual map is here: http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate/hate_map.html#

I wonder if the results of the map have to do with regional variance in terms. There are a few slurs that I would think would be counted as fairly common that aren't on the list.

Or maybe Californians just have a tighter PR game

[cantbeserious]

4. The Map Can Be Zoomed - This Provides Much Better Resolution On The Geographic Locations Of The Hate

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[Cleita]

5. California isn't homogenous especially in the large cities.

People work and live side by side with people from all over the world, who speak many languages and who are gay or not. I used to walk down the Third Street Mall in Santa Monica and I would hear a variety of languages spoken by people of all races and lots of different ethnic dress being worn. We ate in restaurants that had cuisine and owner operators from all over the world. I think when you realize you are no more special than your Iranian neighbor, or your African American or Mexican co-worker, or your favorite Thai restaurant workers, you don't need to use racial slurs to get through the day.

[StrayKat]

6. It doesn't really explain the difference.

California is no more cosmopolitan than NY or DC, yet it scored much lower.

[Cleita]

7. Then I don't know. Maybe they had left over biases back from the days when

they also owned slaves. AAs were never really accepted as equals in the north even when slavery was banned. Maybe that explains why they hated the Irish immigrants and later the Italian and Jewish immigrants. It's the only thing I can think of.

[carolinayellowdog]

10. Inland vs. coastal seems define the haters, whether north or south

New England and Florida look a lot better than a band of hate speech starting in southern Appalachia and sweeping all the way to Minnesota and the Dakotas, when you look at the n-word map.

[StrayKat]

11. I don't see this.

There is a remarkable difference between the west and east, but the coast vs. inland is not such a clear pattern. Why does coastal New England look so much worse than coastal California? Why do the two biggest hot spots in NC seem to be on the coast and close to it? Nothing out of Sin City? People on raucous binges in a city that advertises "sin" all you want under the protection of anonymity are less likely to use slurs?

This map looks odd and misleading to me. I don't think making it "proportional" to the overall number of tweets actually showed the real picture. Idaho got a big red spot for the "n-word" even though it only had 2 tweets from one person. Yet:

...Orange County, California has the highest absolute number of tweets mentioning many of the slurs...

Two tweets from a single user is so small a number out of the close to 150,000 they measured that I don't see how it would be enough to be a statistically reliable representation.

It would be much more telling if the map were made proportional to the population, which the authors stress it isn't. Or, as some in the comments section of the explanation point out, proportional to the number of tweets per county.

[heaven05]

3. no surprise

Amerikkka has always been and will always be a racist, homophobic nation populated by a very ignorant and backward people. Period. Zippy the pig is just the very small tip showing of a very large iceberg waiting to sink this good ship amerikkka! Nothing new has been shown here.

[carolinayellowdog]

9. rather be called queer than fag or homo but

didn't realize until looking at the detail map that it's so much more frequently used in tweets around here