Mapping the N-word. Where Americans Google the N-word the most

[JakeStarkey]

And R-Strom Thurmond from South Carolina. See how valuable is the map.

 

[Pogo]

Looks like the bulk of it is from the liberal northeast.

Mapping Where Americans Google the N-Word

There's a disturbing connection with black mortality.

People don't like to admit they're racist. Some may not even realize the extent of their discriminatory tendencies. But Google knows. You can't hide from Google.

That's the basic premise behind a new U.S. map showing where people Google the N-word most often. The image, compiled by a large study team led by social epidemiologist David Chae of the University of Maryland, reflects search queries for the word from 2004 to 2007 in 196 media markets (as defined by Nielsen). The map appears in a new PLoS One paper (spotted by Wonkblog's Christopher Ingraham) as part of a larger study into the connection between racism and public health.

Red areas below—located mostly in the Northeast and the South—are places where such searches occurred more than average over this period. Green areas, largely found in the West and Mountain regions, were considerably below average. Yellow and orange areas are slightly below or slightly above average, respectively.

More: Where Americans Google the N-Word Most Often and Black Mortality - CityLab

No. You are a liar.

Most of it is a huge swath of Appalachia. from a tip of New York through the middle part of Pennsylvania through a lot of western Ohio, ALL of West Virginia, the western half of Virginia, most of Kentucky, a large portion of Tennessee - all part of Appalachia, an area known for rampant racism.

See how that works?

This is, of course, assuming that the Google search is correct.

Oh I'm not sure I agree with that. I live in Appalachia and I don't see it -- of course Appalachia has never had much of a black population either... but in my experience and travels (and offspring of a Northerner and a Southerner) the racism is most entrenched in the Flatland -- not here.


Somewhere I saw a map of Ku Klux Klan concentration that would affirm this -- I'll try to find it.

And not to put too fine a point on it but from a look at the map I'd say that red is more west of Appalachia than in it.

Found that map of Klan presence I remembered -- here it is, although again it doesn't reflect much of a common pattern:
(Red counties = Klan presence -- dated 1964-66, based on FBI surveillance of the time, and this map is limited to the South-plus-Florida)

As you'll notice -- doesn't include much of Appalachia. For what it's worth.

(source here)

I can see my own county on there. It's in white, which doesn't surprise me.

 

[Pogo]

Looks like the bulk of it is from the liberal northeast.

Mapping Where Americans Google the N-Word

There's a disturbing connection with black mortality.

People don't like to admit they're racist. Some may not even realize the extent of their discriminatory tendencies. But Google knows. You can't hide from Google.

That's the basic premise behind a new U.S. map showing where people Google the N-word most often. The image, compiled by a large study team led by social epidemiologist David Chae of the University of Maryland, reflects search queries for the word from 2004 to 2007 in 196 media markets (as defined by Nielsen). The map appears in a new PLoS One paper (spotted by Wonkblog's Christopher Ingraham) as part of a larger study into the connection between racism and public health.

Red areas below—located mostly in the Northeast and the South—are places where such searches occurred more than average over this period. Green areas, largely found in the West and Mountain regions, were considerably below average. Yellow and orange areas are slightly below or slightly above average, respectively.

More: Where Americans Google the N-Word Most Often and Black Mortality - CityLab

No. You are a liar.

Most of it is a huge swath of Appalachia, from a tip of New York through the middle part of Pennsylvania through a lot of western Ohio, ALL of West Virginia, the western half of Virginia, most of Kentucky, a large portion of Tennessee - all part of Appalachia, an area known for rampant racism.

See how that works?

This is, of course, assuming that the Google search is correct.

West Virginia is believable..... Isn't that where Robert Byrd, the prominent Democrat KKK leader was from?????

He was from North Carolina. And he quit the Klan before he ever even ran for office, so they were never concurrent.
As regards West Virginia itself, it split off from Virginia over the issue of slavery.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Do a search on a map of black population in the US and the results are very similar to this one.
Duh.

 

[Pogo]

Do a search on a map of black population in the US and the results are very similar to this one.
Duh.

Are they now.

Upper Peninsula of Michigan? Delmarva? Ever been?

And what's with that red in the center -- what is that, Nebraska?

No the only kind of pattern I can even begin to see here is population density. In sum, there's little or nothing to be learned here.

 

[Obiwan]

Looks like the bulk of it is from the liberal northeast.

Mapping Where Americans Google the N-Word

There's a disturbing connection with black mortality.

People don't like to admit they're racist. Some may not even realize the extent of their discriminatory tendencies. But Google knows. You can't hide from Google.

That's the basic premise behind a new U.S. map showing where people Google the N-word most often. The image, compiled by a large study team led by social epidemiologist David Chae of the University of Maryland, reflects search queries for the word from 2004 to 2007 in 196 media markets (as defined by Nielsen). The map appears in a new PLoS One paper (spotted by Wonkblog's Christopher Ingraham) as part of a larger study into the connection between racism and public health.

Red areas below—located mostly in the Northeast and the South—are places where such searches occurred more than average over this period. Green areas, largely found in the West and Mountain regions, were considerably below average. Yellow and orange areas are slightly below or slightly above average, respectively.

More: Where Americans Google the N-Word Most Often and Black Mortality - CityLab

No. You are a liar.

Most of it is a huge swath of Appalachia, from a tip of New York through the middle part of Pennsylvania through a lot of western Ohio, ALL of West Virginia, the western half of Virginia, most of Kentucky, a large portion of Tennessee - all part of Appalachia, an area known for rampant racism.

See how that works?

This is, of course, assuming that the Google search is correct.

West Virginia is believable..... Isn't that where Robert Byrd, the prominent Democrat KKK leader was from?????

He was from North Carolina. And he quit the Klan before he ever even ran for office, so they were never concurrent.
As regards West Virginia itself, it split off from Virginia over the issue of slavery.

Is your Google broke?????
FBI U. S. Senator Robert Byrd
Robert Carlyle Byrd (1917-2010) served as a U.S. Senator for the state of West Virginia from 1958 until his death.

Remembering Byrd s Racism
Highlights of Robert Byrd’s history of race relations include:

– 1942: Joins the KKK; eventually rises to the rank of “Exalted Cyclops.”

– 1945: Writes “Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”

– 1947: Says in a letter that the Klan is needed “like never before” and declares that he is “anxious to see its rebirth.”

– 1964: Attempts to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It wasn’t out of principled libertarian support for property rights. Cites a racist study claiming that black people’s brains are statistically smaller than white people’s.

– 1967: Votes against Thurgood Marshall’s Supreme Court nomination. Went to J. Edgar Hoover to see if Marshall had any Communist ties that could ruin his nomination.

– 1968: Tells the FBI that it’s time that Martin Luther King, Jr., “met his Waterloo.” FBI ignores him.

– 1991: Votes Against Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court nomination. Becomes the only senator in the body to have voted against both black Supreme Court nominees.

– 2001: Refers to what he called “white *******” on national television. Try to imagine, say, Haley Barbour being given a pass after calling someone a “white ******.”

 

[JakeStarkey]

Do a search on a map of black population in the US and the results are very similar to this one.
Duh.

Are they now.

Upper Peninsula of Michigan? Delmarva? Ever been?

And what's with that red in the center -- what is it, Nebraska?

Looks like SW Illinois. They do not like blacks there competing for jobs.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Byrd, compared to Thurmond, was a saint. Strom would not acknolwedge publicly his black bastard daughter: asshole.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

Looks like the bulk of it is from the liberal northeast.

Mapping Where Americans Google the N-Word

There's a disturbing connection with black mortality.

People don't like to admit they're racist. Some may not even realize the extent of their discriminatory tendencies. But Google knows. You can't hide from Google.

That's the basic premise behind a new U.S. map showing where people Google the N-word most often. The image, compiled by a large study team led by social epidemiologist David Chae of the University of Maryland, reflects search queries for the word from 2004 to 2007 in 196 media markets (as defined by Nielsen). The map appears in a new PLoS One paper (spotted by Wonkblog's Christopher Ingraham) as part of a larger study into the connection between racism and public health.

Red areas below—located mostly in the Northeast and the South—are places where such searches occurred more than average over this period. Green areas, largely found in the West and Mountain regions, were considerably below average. Yellow and orange areas are slightly below or slightly above average, respectively.

More: Where Americans Google the N-Word Most Often and Black Mortality - CityLab

No. You are a liar.

Most of it is a huge swath of Appalachia. from a tip of New York through the middle part of Pennsylvania through a lot of western Ohio, ALL of West Virginia, the western half of Virginia, most of Kentucky, a large portion of Tennessee - all part of Appalachia, an area known for rampant racism.

See how that works?

This is, of course, assuming that the Google search is correct.

Oh I'm not sure I agree with that. I live in Appalachia and I don't see it -- of course Appalachia has never had much of a black population either... but in my experience and travels (and offspring of a Northerner and a Southerner) the racism is most entrenched in the Flatland -- not here.


Somewhere I saw a map of Ku Klux Klan concentration that would affirm this -- I'll try to find it.

And not to put too fine a point on it but from a look at the map I'd say that red is more west of Appalachia than in it.

I've said it before. What people don't realize about places like where you live, or where I live is that the stereotype of racism just isn't true, because by and large people are too poor to have time to worry about things like race. They are mostly just trying to make it day to day.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

Byrd, compared to Thurmond, was a saint. Strom would not acknolwedge publicly his black bastard daughter: asshole.

He named his black bastard daughter Asshole? What a jerk.

 

[Pogo]

Looks like the bulk of it is from the liberal northeast.

Mapping Where Americans Google the N-Word

There's a disturbing connection with black mortality.

People don't like to admit they're racist. Some may not even realize the extent of their discriminatory tendencies. But Google knows. You can't hide from Google.

That's the basic premise behind a new U.S. map showing where people Google the N-word most often. The image, compiled by a large study team led by social epidemiologist David Chae of the University of Maryland, reflects search queries for the word from 2004 to 2007 in 196 media markets (as defined by Nielsen). The map appears in a new PLoS One paper (spotted by Wonkblog's Christopher Ingraham) as part of a larger study into the connection between racism and public health.

Red areas below—located mostly in the Northeast and the South—are places where such searches occurred more than average over this period. Green areas, largely found in the West and Mountain regions, were considerably below average. Yellow and orange areas are slightly below or slightly above average, respectively.

More: Where Americans Google the N-Word Most Often and Black Mortality - CityLab

No. You are a liar.

Most of it is a huge swath of Appalachia, from a tip of New York through the middle part of Pennsylvania through a lot of western Ohio, ALL of West Virginia, the western half of Virginia, most of Kentucky, a large portion of Tennessee - all part of Appalachia, an area known for rampant racism.

See how that works?

This is, of course, assuming that the Google search is correct.

West Virginia is believable..... Isn't that where Robert Byrd, the prominent Democrat KKK leader was from?????

He was from North Carolina. And he quit the Klan before he ever even ran for office, so they were never concurrent.
As regards West Virginia itself, it split off from Virginia over the issue of slavery.

Is your Google broke?????
FBI U. S. Senator Robert Byrd
Robert Carlyle Byrd (1917-2010) served as a U.S. Senator for the state of West Virginia from 1958 until his death.

Remembering Byrd s Racism
Highlights of Robert Byrd’s history of race relations include:

– 1942: Joins the KKK; eventually rises to the rank of “Exalted Cyclops.”

– 1945: Writes “Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”

– 1947: Says in a letter that the Klan is needed “like never before” and declares that he is “anxious to see its rebirth.”

– 1964: Attempts to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It wasn’t out of principled libertarian support for property rights. Cites a racist study claiming that black people’s brains are statistically smaller than white people’s.

– 1967: Votes against Thurgood Marshall’s Supreme Court nomination. Went to J. Edgar Hoover to see if Marshall had any Communist ties that could ruin his nomination.

– 1968: Tells the FBI that it’s time that Martin Luther King, Jr., “met his Waterloo.” FBI ignores him.

– 1991: Votes Against Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court nomination. Becomes the only senator in the body to have voted against both black Supreme Court nominees.

– 2001: Refers to what he called “white *******” on national television. Try to imagine, say, Haley Barbour being given a pass after calling someone a “white ******.”

Not at all but thanks for confirming what I just said.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Look up the inclusive use of a colon in a sentence structure. You are concrete.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

Look up the inclusive use of a colon in a sentence structure. You are concrete.

Go buy yourself a sense of humor Jake, Jesus Christ.

 

[Pogo]

Byrd, compared to Thurmond, was a saint. Strom would not acknolwedge publicly his black bastard daughter: asshole.

Essie Mae Washington Williams (now deceased). I'm related to her because I'm related to Strom Thurmond. When my older cousin, the geneaolgist of the family, heard her story he immediately wrote to Essie welcoming her to the family. I like that.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Byrd, compared to Thurmond, was a saint. Strom would not acknolwedge publicly his black bastard daughter: asshole.

Essie Mae Washington Williams (now deceased). I'm related to her because I'm related to Strom Thurmond. When my older cousin, the geneaolgist of the family, heard her story he immediately wrote to Essie welcoming her to the family. I like that.

I do, too.

 

[aaronleland]

Looks like the bulk of it is from the liberal northeast.

Mapping Where Americans Google the N-Word

There's a disturbing connection with black mortality.

People don't like to admit they're racist. Some may not even realize the extent of their discriminatory tendencies. But Google knows. You can't hide from Google.

That's the basic premise behind a new U.S. map showing where people Google the N-word most often. The image, compiled by a large study team led by social epidemiologist David Chae of the University of Maryland, reflects search queries for the word from 2004 to 2007 in 196 media markets (as defined by Nielsen). The map appears in a new PLoS One paper (spotted by Wonkblog's Christopher Ingraham) as part of a larger study into the connection between racism and public health.

Red areas below—located mostly in the Northeast and the South—are places where such searches occurred more than average over this period. Green areas, largely found in the West and Mountain regions, were considerably below average. Yellow and orange areas are slightly below or slightly above average, respectively.

More: Where Americans Google the N-Word Most Often and Black Mortality - CityLab

No. You are a liar.

Most of it is a huge swath of Appalachia, from a tip of New York through the middle part of Pennsylvania through a lot of western Ohio, ALL of West Virginia, the western half of Virginia, most of Kentucky, a large portion of Tennessee - all part of Appalachia, an area known for rampant racism.

See how that works?

This is, of course, assuming that the Google search is correct.

You could be onto something. I'm originally from West Virginia, and I Google that word all the time.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Looks like the bulk of it is from the liberal northeast.

Mapping Where Americans Google the N-Word

There's a disturbing connection with black mortality.

People don't like to admit they're racist. Some may not even realize the extent of their discriminatory tendencies. But Google knows. You can't hide from Google.

That's the basic premise behind a new U.S. map showing where people Google the N-word most often. The image, compiled by a large study team led by social epidemiologist David Chae of the University of Maryland, reflects search queries for the word from 2004 to 2007 in 196 media markets (as defined by Nielsen). The map appears in a new PLoS One paper (spotted by Wonkblog's Christopher Ingraham) as part of a larger study into the connection between racism and public health.

Red areas below—located mostly in the Northeast and the South—are places where such searches occurred more than average over this period. Green areas, largely found in the West and Mountain regions, were considerably below average. Yellow and orange areas are slightly below or slightly above average, respectively.

More: Where Americans Google the N-Word Most Often and Black Mortality - CityLab

No. You are a liar.

Most of it is a huge swath of Appalachia. from a tip of New York through the middle part of Pennsylvania through a lot of western Ohio, ALL of West Virginia, the western half of Virginia, most of Kentucky, a large portion of Tennessee - all part of Appalachia, an area known for rampant racism.

See how that works?

This is, of course, assuming that the Google search is correct.

Lol ! I'm a liar ? Dude even the article puts it this way

Red areas below—located mostly in the Northeast and the South—

I mainly mention the northeast, because looking at the map, there appears to be a higher concentration of red in that region of the country.

You are trying to put a political spin on this when in reality there is a GEOGRAPHICAL element in this.

New York is a very, very blue state because of NYC, but the areas of NY that are part of Appalachia are as red as it gets. Likewise for the huge middle swath of Pennsylvania, likewise for the western part of Ohio, down to the southern part, paralleling the Ohio river, likewise for every single inch of West Virginia, the western empty counties of Virginia, a huge swath of Kentucky and Tennessee, ending in parts of Alabama and Mississippi.

The red you see - is mostly Appalachia.

I'm just looking at it on a regional basis, not a county by county. Most of the red density lies in the northeast region, which is mostly a region dominated by liberals.

 

[Pogo]

Looks like the bulk of it is from the liberal northeast.

Mapping Where Americans Google the N-Word

There's a disturbing connection with black mortality.

People don't like to admit they're racist. Some may not even realize the extent of their discriminatory tendencies. But Google knows. You can't hide from Google.

That's the basic premise behind a new U.S. map showing where people Google the N-word most often. The image, compiled by a large study team led by social epidemiologist David Chae of the University of Maryland, reflects search queries for the word from 2004 to 2007 in 196 media markets (as defined by Nielsen). The map appears in a new PLoS One paper (spotted by Wonkblog's Christopher Ingraham) as part of a larger study into the connection between racism and public health.

Red areas below—located mostly in the Northeast and the South—are places where such searches occurred more than average over this period. Green areas, largely found in the West and Mountain regions, were considerably below average. Yellow and orange areas are slightly below or slightly above average, respectively.

More: Where Americans Google the N-Word Most Often and Black Mortality - CityLab

No. You are a liar.

Most of it is a huge swath of Appalachia. from a tip of New York through the middle part of Pennsylvania through a lot of western Ohio, ALL of West Virginia, the western half of Virginia, most of Kentucky, a large portion of Tennessee - all part of Appalachia, an area known for rampant racism.

See how that works?

This is, of course, assuming that the Google search is correct.

Oh I'm not sure I agree with that. I live in Appalachia and I don't see it -- of course Appalachia has never had much of a black population either... but in my experience and travels (and offspring of a Northerner and a Southerner) the racism is most entrenched in the Flatland -- not here.


Somewhere I saw a map of Ku Klux Klan concentration that would affirm this -- I'll try to find it.

And not to put too fine a point on it but from a look at the map I'd say that red is more west of Appalachia than in it.

I've said it before. What people don't realize about places like where you live, or where I live is that the stereotype of racism just isn't true, because by and large people are too poor to have time to worry about things like race. They are mostly just trying to make it day to day.

OMFG I was just forced to click "Agree" on a STTAB post. There was no way around it.
Stopped clock syndrome but still.....

 

[Pogo]

Looks like the bulk of it is from the liberal northeast.

Mapping Where Americans Google the N-Word

There's a disturbing connection with black mortality.

People don't like to admit they're racist. Some may not even realize the extent of their discriminatory tendencies. But Google knows. You can't hide from Google.

That's the basic premise behind a new U.S. map showing where people Google the N-word most often. The image, compiled by a large study team led by social epidemiologist David Chae of the University of Maryland, reflects search queries for the word from 2004 to 2007 in 196 media markets (as defined by Nielsen). The map appears in a new PLoS One paper (spotted by Wonkblog's Christopher Ingraham) as part of a larger study into the connection between racism and public health.

Red areas below—located mostly in the Northeast and the South—are places where such searches occurred more than average over this period. Green areas, largely found in the West and Mountain regions, were considerably below average. Yellow and orange areas are slightly below or slightly above average, respectively.

More: Where Americans Google the N-Word Most Often and Black Mortality - CityLab

No. You are a liar.

Most of it is a huge swath of Appalachia, from a tip of New York through the middle part of Pennsylvania through a lot of western Ohio, ALL of West Virginia, the western half of Virginia, most of Kentucky, a large portion of Tennessee - all part of Appalachia, an area known for rampant racism.

See how that works?

This is, of course, assuming that the Google search is correct.

You could be onto something. I'm originally from West Virginia, and I Google that word all the time.

You Google "West Virginia"?

Might wanna invest in a GPS...

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

Looks like the bulk of it is from the liberal northeast.

Mapping Where Americans Google the N-Word

There's a disturbing connection with black mortality.

People don't like to admit they're racist. Some may not even realize the extent of their discriminatory tendencies. But Google knows. You can't hide from Google.

That's the basic premise behind a new U.S. map showing where people Google the N-word most often. The image, compiled by a large study team led by social epidemiologist David Chae of the University of Maryland, reflects search queries for the word from 2004 to 2007 in 196 media markets (as defined by Nielsen). The map appears in a new PLoS One paper (spotted by Wonkblog's Christopher Ingraham) as part of a larger study into the connection between racism and public health.

Red areas below—located mostly in the Northeast and the South—are places where such searches occurred more than average over this period. Green areas, largely found in the West and Mountain regions, were considerably below average. Yellow and orange areas are slightly below or slightly above average, respectively.

More: Where Americans Google the N-Word Most Often and Black Mortality - CityLab

No. You are a liar.

Most of it is a huge swath of Appalachia. from a tip of New York through the middle part of Pennsylvania through a lot of western Ohio, ALL of West Virginia, the western half of Virginia, most of Kentucky, a large portion of Tennessee - all part of Appalachia, an area known for rampant racism.

See how that works?

This is, of course, assuming that the Google search is correct.

Oh I'm not sure I agree with that. I live in Appalachia and I don't see it -- of course Appalachia has never had much of a black population either... but in my experience and travels (and offspring of a Northerner and a Southerner) the racism is most entrenched in the Flatland -- not here.


Somewhere I saw a map of Ku Klux Klan concentration that would affirm this -- I'll try to find it.

And not to put too fine a point on it but from a look at the map I'd say that red is more west of Appalachia than in it.

I've said it before. What people don't realize about places like where you live, or where I live is that the stereotype of racism just isn't true, because by and large people are too poor to have time to worry about things like race. They are mostly just trying to make it day to day.

OMFG I was just forced to click "Agree" on a STTAB post. There was no way around it.
Stopped clock syndrome but still.....

Pogo, the fact of the matter is you and I agree on many topics of discussion ( meaning on many topics you are right) but the difference is when the correct stance on a topic doesn't agree with your political affiliation you won't take it, whereas I shift my political stance per topic to whichever side is correct.