The most racist places in America according to Google

[Lithos]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/28/the-most-racist-places-in-america-according-to-google/?utm_term=.82d685882652

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484

About where I expected it... Same hot spots as where the Second Generation of the Klan (the successor to the Nativist Know Nothings of the 1840's) held power. The Rust and Coal Belt . Definitely should give pause to think that whenever Trump mentions Coal he's talking to these bigots.

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[Warpy]

1. I'll bet that map would have been a lot different in the late 60s

and I know I'd certainly have colored Boston bright red back then. It was a different flavor of racism than it was in Jim Crow NC and it hit me like a brick wall.

I think being shamed by the people in Southie throwing rocks and bottles at buses full of little kids did the trick. By the time I left over 20 years later, it had changed a lot. Looks like it's continued to change.

NM is weird. It's more cultural friction than racial friction out here.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. Interesting, but a let down.

It is a shame people still think racism is limited to anti-black sentiment. I understand the caveats, but I also think if they cast a broader net, the "not so racist areas" would certainly change colors. If they used words for other ethnic groups and didn't limit themselves to one word. Also, there are many anti-Black epithets other than the one word they searched.

[Nay]

5. Oh, I heartily agree. Idaho, Montana, etc. have TONS of racists of all

stripes -- I have NO idea how they got 'blue.' Idaho is where Nazis have been relocating to for 30 years!! And if they are only measuring racism toward black people, they have missed whole legions of people who have little experience with black people but really despise Native Americans, Chinese, etc. Having lived out west for a few years, I can say that this map truly doesn't reflect the reality I saw.

[Break time]

3. Makes me wonder

How can you have more than average and less than average but no average????

[gopiscrap]

4. Interesting

[LakeArenal]

6. The most racist place in America is

The White House..