Although it is making the rounds online, the major news outlets don't seem to have picked up yet on a map designed by a group of students from
Humboldt State University, which displays (
here) the intensity of hate in America measured by the use of hate language on Twitter. The students read a 150,000 tweets containing racial and homophobic slurs and located them geographically on what is actually a set of maps, one for each slur. One of the things they found was that these slurs tend to originate in places where there is a less diverse population, particularly more often from rural areas than urban. The result is graphic evidence that we still have a long way to go in overcoming bigotry in America.
