The Geography of Hate (large graphic)

[NJCher]

This is a very interesting article that I know will interest many DU-ers, which is why I hate to post it in GD as it will prob'ly sink like a stone. Didn't know where else to post it.

Here's the map and legend. The article was posted today at The Atlantic Monthly. The darker the color, the more hate groups there are in the state (per million people). I've excerpted a few tidbits and put the link below. An interesting point is that high hate areas and hate crimes don't necessarily go together. At the end of this relatively short article, the authors state what they think is the reason for hate crimes.



These points will come as no surprise:

Hate groups are most highly concentrated in the old South and the northern Plains states.

Hate groups are much less concentrated in the Northeast, Great Lakes, and the West Coast.

Hate groups were negatively associated with the percentage of adults holding a college degree.

Hate groups are negatively correlated with concentrations of gay and lesbian households (-.37) and even more so where there are larger concentrations of immigrants (-.53).

The article is loaded with interesting charts, so information graphics people and sociologist types will have a field day.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/the-geography-of-hate/238708/


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[EFerrari]

1. K&R

[PDJane]

2. It's almost instinctual,

but I would like to know why.

[murielm99]

3. I feel badly for the nice people in places like Montana.

I have family there. They are embarrassed by the number of goofy religious cults and hate groups that are in their area.

They think it is because they are sparsely populated and people have a tendency to mind their own business.

I live in Illinois. I remember looking at one of the Southern Poverty Law Center's maps of hate groups. There was a group not far from me! I drove past their address once, slowly. I scared myself doing that. I don't mean it in a funny way, either. People like that do scare me.

I will bookmark this and look at it later. Thanks for posting!

[FirstLight]

4. Oooh! Just saw this on fb

from a journalist buddy who had written about a group last year:

his comment was:

"About a year ago I reported in the Tahoe Mountain News through the Southern Poverty Law Center that Stateline, Nev., my home, had a neo-Nazi group headquartered there. I had reported the group had been trying to recruit in Tahoe. Well I checked the SPLC hate map tonight and am pleased to report the group has been removed. I will put in a call tomorrow to find out why they left."

[Maru Kitteh]

5. Numbers of hate groups/mil vs. Number of hate group members/mil

If some states with moderate populations have just one or two very large hate groups and other states with very small populations have 4 or more groups but they are all very tiny groups the whole map may look much different.

I think the map is valuable, but flawed.

[XemaSab]

8. Similarly if a state has two hate groups per million

but has 40 million residents that's 80 hate groups.

If a state has 5 hate groups per million but only has 5 million residents that's 25 hate groups.

People who think there aren't hate groups in California are kidding themselves.

[hfojvt]

9. what about a large hate group?

If one state has one hate group with 150,000 members it will register as less hateful than another state with 6 hate groups each with 15 members.

[hlthe2b]

6. I think Wyoming might be a bit overerepresented...

given # active hate GROUPS/million people and since Wyoming's 2010 population is only a bit more than a half million people (2010, 563,62 pop.)

That said, MT and Idaho are not surprising, unfortunately, nor the more moderate trends in the Western Plains and SE.

[Angry Dragon]

7. K&R

[Adsos Letter]

10. K&R; I'm surprised Idaho didn't come out deep red

[Hardrada]

11. States with large Scandinavian-American populations

are not very interested in hate groups. I think some of this goes back to how Northern Europeans generally were treated during WWI by the super-patriotic ancestors of current hate groups. "Speak American!!"

[no_hypocrisy]

12. I'm surprised there are more hate groups in NJ than PA.

I've regarded Pennsylvania as Alabama North.