Thread: Most racist places in America

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"Where do America's most racist people live? "The rural Northeast and South," suggests a new study just published in PLOS ONE.

The paper introduces a novel but makes-tons-of-sense-when-you-think-about-it method for measuring the incidence of racist attitudes: Google search data. The methodology comes from data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. He's used it before to measure the effect of racist attitudes on Barack Obama's electoral prospects.

"Google data, evidence suggests, are unlikely to suffer from major social censoring," Stephens-Davidowitz wrote in a previous paper. "Google searchers are online and likely alone, both of which make it easier to express socially taboo thoughts. Individuals, indeed, note that they are unusually forthcoming with Google." He also notes that the Google measure correlates strongly with other standard measures social science researchers have used to study racist attitudes.

This is important, because racism is a notoriously tricky thing to measure. Traditional survey methods don't really work -- if you flat-out ask someone if they're racist, they will simply tell you no. That's partly because most racism in society today operates at the subconscious level, or gets vented anonymously online.

For the PLOS ONE paper, researchers looked at searches containing the N-word.

People search frequently for it, roughly as often as searches for "migraine(s)," "economist," "sweater," "Daily Show," and "Lakers." (The authors attempted to control for variants of the N-word not necessarily intended as pejoratives, excluding the "a" version of the word that analysis revealed was often used "in different contexts compared to searches of the term ending in '-er'.")

It's also important to note that not all people searching for the N-word are motivated by racism, and that not all racists search for that word, either. But aggregated over several years and several million searches, the data give a pretty good approximation of where a particular type of racist attitude is the strongest.

Interestingly, on the map above the most concentrated cluster of racist searches happened not in the South, but rather along the spine of the Appalachians running from Georgia all the way up to New York and southern Vermont.

Other hotbeds of racist searches appear in areas of the Gulf Coast, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and a large portion of Ohio. But the searches get rarer the further West you go. West of Texas, no region falls into the "much more than average" category. This map follows the general contours of a map of racist Tweets made by researchers at Humboldt State University.

So some people are sitting at home by themselves, Googling a bunch of racist stuff. What does it matter? As it turns out, it matters quite a bit. The researchers on the PLOS ONE paper found that racist searches were correlated with higher mortality rates for blacks, even after controlling for a variety of racial and socio-economic variables.

"Results from our study indicate that living in an area characterized by a one standard deviation greater proportion of racist Google searches is associated with an 8.2% increase in the all-cause mortality rate among Blacks," the authors conclude. Now, of course, Google searches aren't directly leading to the deaths of African Americans. But previous research has shown that the prevalence of racist attitudes can contribute to poor health and economic outcomes among black residents.

"Racially motivated experiences of discrimination impact health via diminished socioeconomic attainment and by enforcing patterns in racial residential segregation, geographically isolating large segments of the Black population into worse neighborhood conditions," the authors write, summarizing existing research.

"Racial discrimination in employment can also lead to lower income and greater financial strain, which in turn have been linked to worse mental and physical health outcomes."

How does that map compare when overlayed with a map of Trump supporters?

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

on the map above the most concentrated cluster of racist searches happened not in the South, but rather along the spine of the Appalachians

I guess when Billy Bob married his sister Louannabelle 5 generations ago, the racist gene was strong and has just kept getting stronger as it's been re-combined so often.

Some Boston red Sox fans in the outfield seats might be.

And I noticed, Rhode Island is red but surrounded fed blue.

?

Hard to say if the study is sound. I retesting though.

I would surmise that overt racism is alive and kicking on the internet located anyplace a hater is behind the keyboard. Some sad sick puppies out there.

I guess you will find the most racist places to be harlem or gang land areas
in f.i. LA.
Whites are the most openminded tolerant people on the globe,
and look what good that has done to, for instance Europe.
Get a fucking grip on reality, fuckwits whiggers

India would have to be one of the more racist countries.
Indians hate blacks, whites and halfies and anybody outside of their particular ethnic group, yet want to have white skin, wear western fashions copy any western idea they come across.

Strange lot.

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

I retesting though.

Did you bang your head or something recently?

Originally Posted by cyrille

Originally Posted by Cold Pizza

I retesting though.

Did you bang your head or something recently?

I meant to say interesting, you fookin' retard.

a google search to see if someone is racist? psshh!

in texas they #1 dont even have internet, and #2 they know the N word so well, no one wold even bother searching.


ridiculous!

Originally Posted by stfranalum

a google search to see if someone is racist? psshh!

in texas they #1 dont even have internet, and #2 they know the N word so well, no one wold even bother searching.


ridiculous!

And we can look at the black garbage areas around the country to find the bigots: DC, East Maryland, North Philly, Baltimore, Detroi. South LA, South Chicago.

Shitholes.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

"The rural Northeast

and what part of europe did they come from ?

Originally Posted by stfranalum

in texas they #1 dont even have internet, and #2 they know the N word so well

#1: Now that you mention we didn't have the internets when we lived in Texas...of course that was in the 1980s.

#2:Nacogdoches?


Any maps yet for the search term crazy-ass cracka?

Originally Posted by Maanaam

How does that map compare when overlayed with a map of Trump supporters?

How does that map compare when overplayed with a map of sexist non Hillary voters.

This map shows areas where most racist tweets emanate;

Hate Map

Almost entirely Trumpty Dumpty land.

Originally Posted by SKkin

Nacogdoches?

i know a guy from there.

racism so casual you don't even notice it (when white)