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Alabama ranks first among racist post-election tweets
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A couple of findings from this analysis
Mississippi and Alabama have the highest LQ measures with scores of 7.4 and 8.1, respectively.
Other southern states (Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee) surrounding these two core states also have very high LQ scores and form a fairly distinctive cluster in the southeast.
The prevalence of post-election racist tweets is not strictly a southern phenomenon as North Dakota (3.5), Utah (3.5) and Missouri (3) have very high LQs. Other states such as West Virginia, Oregon and Minnesota don't score as high but have a relatively higher number of hate tweets than their overall twitter usage would suggest.
The Northeast and West coast (with the exception of Oregon) have a relatively lower number of hate tweets.
States shaded in grey had no geocoded hate tweets within our database. Many of these states (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and South Dakota) have relatively low levels of Twitter use as well. Rhode Island has much higher numbers of geocoded tweets but had no hate tweets that we could identify.
Keep in mind we are measuring tweets rather than users and so one individual could be responsible for many tweets and in some cases (most notably in North Dakota, Utah and Minnesota) the number of hate tweets is small and the high LQ is driven by the relatively low number of overall tweets. Nonetheless, these findings support the idea that there are some fairly strong clustering of hate tweets centered in southeastern U.S. which has a much higher rate than the national average.
But lest anyone elsewhere become too complacent, the unfortunate fact is that most states are not immune from this kind of activity. Racist behavior, particularly directed at African Americans in the U.S., is all too easy to find both offline and in information space.
--------------------- State Level Data ---------------------
The table below outlines the values for the location quotients for post-election hate tweets.
State LQ of Racist Tweets Notes
Alabama 8.1
Mississippi 7.4
Georgia 3.6
North Dakota 3.5
Utah 3.5
Louisiana 3.3
Tennessee 3.1
Missouri 3.0
West Virginia 2.8
Minnesota 2.7
Kansas 2.4
Kentucky 1.9
Arkansas 1.9
Wisconsin 1.9
Colorado 1.9
New Mexico 1.6
Maryland 1.6
Illinois 1.5
North Carolina 1.5
Virginia 1.5
Oregon 1.5
District of Columbia 1.5
Ohio 1.4
South Carolina 1.4
Texas 1.3
Florida 1.3
Delaware 1.3
Nebraska 1.1
Washington 1.0
Maine 0.9
New Hampshire 0.8
Pennsylvania 0.7
Michigan 0.6
Massachusetts 0.5
New Jersey 0.5
California 0.5
Oklahoma 0.5
Connecticut 0.5
Nevada 0.5
Iowa 0.4
Indiana 0.3
New York 0.3
Arizona 0.2
Alaska - see note 1
Idaho - see note 1
South Dakota - see note 1
Wyoming - see note 1
Montana - see note 1
Hawaii - see note 1
Rhode Island - see note 2
Note 1: no racist tweets, SMALL number of total geocoded tweets
Note 2: no racist tweets, LARGE number of total geocoded tweets
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