Pretty surprising that Portland comes out as above-average racist.
All’s I have to say after reading that is that I’m proud of my fellow Michiganders.
Well this woman sure is a winner.
Yeah and some of her best friends are black.
And have been assassinated.
That’s not the word she would use.
I’m surprised Tennessee is so low, but I think most of them are still figuring out this interweb thing. (ETA - TN is high on the scale, just lower than I expected).
NY is so low it isn’t even on that scale. Go NY!
Something’s funny about that analysis. First, we have this:
This isn’t consistent. The “LQ” value, as defined in the text, is how many hate tweets a state has compared to the amount their overall Twitter usage would suggest.
Then, when they show the table of LQ values for the various states, there are 28 states with LQ values above 1, many of them by a considerable margin, while there are only 4 with values below 1, the lowest of which is still over 0.5. But the weighted average of all of those ought to be exactly 1, and I can’t see how Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Michigan can have weights so much higher than the rest of the states.
“I’m not racist and I’m not crazy. just simply stating my opinion.!!”
She seems a little unclear on what, exactly, constitutes “racist”.
Not to me. I grew up there.
Roddy
I like the random racist tweet from across the Gulf of Mexico.
I don’t get why racists ALWAYS say, “I’m not racist.” If you are fine with people knowing that you think the president is a nigger, why aren’t you fine with people thinking you are a ‘racist’??
Because if there’s only one thing they hate more than blacks, it’s racism.
This literally made me laugh out loud.
As a citizen of South Carolina, I can attest to this. There is not one person in my hometown who would admit to being a racist. However, the number of cringe-worthy statements I hear on a daily basis doesn’t seem to be diminishing as the years go by.
Theres not enough data to make any statistically significant conclusions.
I grew up in Lake Oswego. It’s sad, isn’t it? I think part of the issue is simply how few black people are around, it’s pretty easy to think of them as ‘other.’ Thanks to my parents for teaching me to treat everybody with equal respect.
Ditto!
Paradoxically, I think growing up without any black people around made it easier for me not to be racist. Even though I now know that a generation or two ahead of me is really racist, the fact that there are no black people around means I never heard about it as a kid, so I never internalized their racist message. The only message I got was from TV, where they told me racism was wrong.
I’m also honestly surprised none of the racist tweets came from my area of the woods. My sister regularly encounter KKK wizards (or whatever they are called) at her job at the bank, we’re that close to the “KKK capital.” Maybe they’re just too old to tweet.
And this is one reason Montana and Wyoming are grey on the map: We have a few people, sure, but they’re mostly White and Native American. That’s the biggest racial divide. Black is a big city thing most people don’t really go for around here.
Of course, in Wyoming there’s three races: White, Native American, and Hallucination Brought On By Extended Isolation.