Okay, I nerded out. Anything after the 'BLUF' is totally optional. By the way, ¿are you the college buddette of my high-school bud, John C. (at UPENN)?
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B.L.U.F. (bottom-line, up-front): I am expressing a personal intuition and do not have the empirical evidence to back it up directly. So my conclusion is tentatively valid at bes…
Okay, I nerded out. Anything after the 'BLUF' is totally optional. By the way, ¿are you the college buddette of my high-school bud, John C. (at UPENN)?
🤞
B.L.U.F. (bottom-line, up-front): I am expressing a personal intuition and do not have the empirical evidence to back it up directly. So my conclusion is tentatively valid at best; quite wrong at worst.
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I tried to find a break-down of police shootings and hate crimes of Blacks and Hispanics by state or region. The best I could do, for a quick check, was using the F.B.I. hate crime data based upon "Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry" for two sets of states.
Ten outside the South: Arizona, Caliporno, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington (state). This group had recorded 4,214 hate crimes in 2022 on a population of 68.7 million people.
Thirteen 'Southern' states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Cawlina, Oklahoma, Sahth Cawlina, Tennessee, Tejas, and Virginia. This group recorded 2,472 hate crimes on a population of 68.4 million people.
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While the non-Southern states had 0.5% more people than the Southern states, in 2022, they endured roughly 70% more hate crimes for that year. Obviously, these data have certain weaknesses (e.g., ethnic not racial mix of the hate crimes and unequal levels of transparency and willingness to designate certain crimes as hate crimes). Just a broad first cut.
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My remark was (and is) based upon personal experience -- of living in PA, NY, and AL -- and not direct empirical evidence. So, I could be wrong in my take on the more agrarian culture of the South versus the more mercantile culture of the North, both of which have diluted over the last two or three generations.
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Anecdotally, I relied upon Reverend Dr King's quote, "I've been in many demonstrations all across the South, but I can say that I had never seen, even in Mississippi, mobs as hostile and as hate-filled as in Chicago . . . When we had our open housing marches many of our white liberal friends cried out in horror and dismay: 'You are creating hatred and hostility in the white communities in which you are marching. You are only developing a white backlash.' They failed to realize that the hatred and the hostilities were already latently or subconsciously present. Our marches merely brought them to the surface."
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Lastly, I also recalled the influences of two books -- 'The Other America' (Harrington; 1962) and 'How to Read the Constitution and Why' (Wehle; 2018) -- that discussed marginalization in the former and the steadiness of segregation in Northern areas since, I believe, 1980 in the latter. These various sources obviously do not make for a full picture and I may be giving way to confirmation bias. That intuition has been around since I went to college in rural Virginia many moons ago.
Bridget,
Okay, I nerded out. Anything after the 'BLUF' is totally optional. By the way, ¿are you the college buddette of my high-school bud, John C. (at UPENN)?
🤞
B.L.U.F. (bottom-line, up-front): I am expressing a personal intuition and do not have the empirical evidence to back it up directly. So my conclusion is tentatively valid at best; quite wrong at worst.
✍️
I tried to find a break-down of police shootings and hate crimes of Blacks and Hispanics by state or region. The best I could do, for a quick check, was using the F.B.I. hate crime data based upon "Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry" for two sets of states.
https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/state-data
Ten outside the South: Arizona, Caliporno, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington (state). This group had recorded 4,214 hate crimes in 2022 on a population of 68.7 million people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population
Thirteen 'Southern' states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Cawlina, Oklahoma, Sahth Cawlina, Tennessee, Tejas, and Virginia. This group recorded 2,472 hate crimes on a population of 68.4 million people.
😱
While the non-Southern states had 0.5% more people than the Southern states, in 2022, they endured roughly 70% more hate crimes for that year. Obviously, these data have certain weaknesses (e.g., ethnic not racial mix of the hate crimes and unequal levels of transparency and willingness to designate certain crimes as hate crimes). Just a broad first cut.
🤔
My remark was (and is) based upon personal experience -- of living in PA, NY, and AL -- and not direct empirical evidence. So, I could be wrong in my take on the more agrarian culture of the South versus the more mercantile culture of the North, both of which have diluted over the last two or three generations.
😢
Anecdotally, I relied upon Reverend Dr King's quote, "I've been in many demonstrations all across the South, but I can say that I had never seen, even in Mississippi, mobs as hostile and as hate-filled as in Chicago . . . When we had our open housing marches many of our white liberal friends cried out in horror and dismay: 'You are creating hatred and hostility in the white communities in which you are marching. You are only developing a white backlash.' They failed to realize that the hatred and the hostilities were already latently or subconsciously present. Our marches merely brought them to the surface."
😳
Lastly, I also recalled the influences of two books -- 'The Other America' (Harrington; 1962) and 'How to Read the Constitution and Why' (Wehle; 2018) -- that discussed marginalization in the former and the steadiness of segregation in Northern areas since, I believe, 1980 in the latter. These various sources obviously do not make for a full picture and I may be giving way to confirmation bias. That intuition has been around since I went to college in rural Virginia many moons ago.