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Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to Obama’s Re-election

Nov 19 2012

An outfit that calls itself Floating Sheep, which has an "interest in the geography of information", took note of hate speech on Twitter just after the election. Curious, they collected all tweets that were coded by their geography, that referenced the election and that contained racist terms. These were then mapped to the states as seen here, where the higher the quantity the darker the coloration. It's evident that racism persists, and mostly where one might suspect, with Alabama and Mississippi taking the dubious first prize.

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