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

[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.

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.

Not that part of it. You're thinking of the East Coast.

 

[Obiwan]

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



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.

Really???? I just confirmed that Byrd was still a racist after he got into the U S Senate.....

Guess that Liberal Education is working real good for you.... When do you start first-grade level math?????

 

[Pogo]

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



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.

Disagree​

Whew. That's more like normal.

 

[Pogo]

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.

Really???? I just confirmed that Byrd was still a racist after he got into the U S Senate.....

Guess that Liberal Education is working real good for you.... When do you start first-grade level math?????

Go learn to read your own post there, Evelyn Wood.
What you actually posted was -- "West Virginia is believable..... Isn't that where Robert Byrd, the prominent Democrat KKK leader was from?"

And I schooled you on both.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

What the fuck? Why does Byrd come up in every single one of these threads. Him being a racist is about as relevant in terms of today's Dem Party as Abraham Lincoln is to the GOP. Meaning none at all.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

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.

Disagree​

Whew. That's more like normal.

But true, I'll bet $20 donated to USMB that you can't find a single post of yours where you have disagreed with a liberal/Democratic policy that you posted before 2:50 pm on May 13,2015. Find one and I will donate $20 to USMB, fail to find one and you donate $20. Deal?

 

[JakeStarkey]

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.

This has already been answered.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Here, your map:

And a map of Appalachia:

Exactly as I described it.

Welll -- no, it's not.

For one -- take that jut of land out from North Carolina and follow its latitude west. You've got a lot more of Appalachia south of there than you have red. For another, take all that red area of northern Ohio into Indiana circling around Lake Erie -- not part of Appalachia. Two variations right there. DelMarVa peninsula is another -- you don't get any flatter than Delmarva. Then you've got all that land in east/central Texas, Arkansas, south Louisiana, and other pockets nowhere near Appalachia.

This is all moot since the frequency of a Google search tells us nothing of motives. But for what it's worth on the underlying theory, Appalachia was't a hotbed of the Confederacy anyway. It was largely split loyalties.

Look again, slowly....

But I agree with you that it is moot.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

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.

Similar but not exact. Yes there are old-school, largely irrelevant racists in the Delmarva. I live in MD so I have been there often enough to not want to go back.
But if you honestly look at the maps you'll see the very predictable similarities.
I only hear nigga from blacks and I hear it pretty incessantly, living in a mostly black region.

 

[Statistikhengst]

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.....

You will survive it and come back a stronger man. Promise!

 

[Zoom-boing]

The 'n' word.



For crying out loud.

******. It only has power if you let it.



Oh look, this pussy site asterisks it out. This place used to used to have balls and a set of teeth. Now, it's pc-pussified.

Good god.

 

[Pogo]

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.

Disagree​

Whew. That's more like normal.

But true, I'll bet $20 donated to USMB that you can't find a single post of yours where you have disagreed with a liberal/Democratic policy that you posted before 2:50 pm on May 13,2015. Find one and I will donate $20 to USMB, fail to find one and you donate $20. Deal?

Sure, fine. BUT -- who is to determine "a liberal/Democratic policy"?

I'm ready. Right now.

hehehehe...

 

[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.

Similar but not exact. Yes there are old-school, largely irrelevant racists in the Delmarva. I live in MD so I have been there often enough to not want to go back.
But if you honestly look at the maps you'll see the very predictable similarities.
I only hear nigga from blacks and I hear it pretty incessantly, living in a mostly black region.

What you said was "black population", not "old school racists". That's why I cited the regions I did as exceptions. Same with the Appalachia theory.

I just don't see how any kind of pattern is discernible here other than (a very loose) one with general populatioin density.

 

[Obiwan]

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.

Really???? I just confirmed that Byrd was still a racist after he got into the U S Senate.....

Guess that Liberal Education is working real good for you.... When do you start first-grade level math?????

Go learn to read your own post there, Evelyn Wood.
What you actually posted was -- "West Virginia is believable..... Isn't that where Robert Byrd, the prominent Democrat KKK leader was from?"

And I schooled you on both.

Let's see.... Byrd was a Democrat, he was from West Virginia, and he was an Exalted Cyclops in the KKK.....

Are you insinuating that he was insignificant because he was a Democrat and a U S Senator????

If not, I proved my point.... Now recess is over, so run back inside for reading class......

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

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.

Really???? I just confirmed that Byrd was still a racist after he got into the U S Senate.....

Guess that Liberal Education is working real good for you.... When do you start first-grade level math?????

Go learn to read your own post there, Evelyn Wood.
What you actually posted was -- "West Virginia is believable..... Isn't that where Robert Byrd, the prominent Democrat KKK leader was from?"

And I schooled you on both.

Let's see.... Byrd was a Democrat, he was from West Virginia, and he was an Exalted Cyclops in the KKK.....

Are you insinuating that he was insignificant because he was a Democrat and a U S Senator????

If not, I proved my point.... Now recess is over, so run back inside for reading class......

He's insignificant in regards to today's Dem Party.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

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



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.

Not that part of it. You're thinking of the East Coast.

Enough already !!! The bottom line here is if you ask people what the political bent of the northeast is, most would all say the region is more towards the left side of the aisle.
Looking at the map, the general upper right area has a lot of the red. Most people would look at that and say it's in the vicinity of the northeast.

 

[Pogo]

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.

Really???? I just confirmed that Byrd was still a racist after he got into the U S Senate.....

Guess that Liberal Education is working real good for you.... When do you start first-grade level math?????

Go learn to read your own post there, Evelyn Wood.
What you actually posted was -- "West Virginia is believable..... Isn't that where Robert Byrd, the prominent Democrat KKK leader was from?"

And I schooled you on both.

Let's see.... Byrd was a Democrat, he was from West Virginia, and he was an Exalted Cyclops in the KKK.....

Are you insinuating that he was insignificant because he was a Democrat and a U S Senator????

If not, I proved my point.... Now recess is over, so run back inside for reading class......

You proved that you're illiterate, yes. Byrd came from North Carolina, was in the KKK in the early 1940s and quit before ever running for public office. And STTAB is ::choke:: right that that's got nothing to do with anything going on right now, in the Democratic Party. No more than Klanners Edward Jackson and Rice Means, to name two, mean anything going on right now with the Republican Party.

One thing y'all partisan hacks should remember before you dig yourselves in this deep -- everybody lives in their ow time period. The social mores and values of 1940 are not those of 75 years later, and whatever associations the KKK picked up since then --- had not happened yet, by definition. Simmons famously and vociferously (and disingenuously) argued it was a "social club" that did not engage in violence -- and that was how the PR people he hired sold it. It's reasonably estimated that one-third of the adult male population of Indiana was Klan at one point. This is not a still picture conveniently set aside for you to pin the tail on the donkey in an ahistorical association fallacy.

 

[Pogo]

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.

Not that part of it. You're thinking of the East Coast.

Enough already !!! The bottom line here is if you ask people what the political bent of the northeast is, most would all say the region is more towards the left side of the aisle.
Looking at the map, the general upper right area has a lot of the red. Most people would look at that and say it's in the vicinity of the northeast.

No, the part you mean is the Coast -- not the interior. You'll notice the red doesn't go to the coast. Not that whether it does or doesn't means squat anyway, but let's not play loosely with geography.

 

[danielpalos]

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

for some on the left, it is just "code" from the Right that they don't have a clue or a Cause and need to create that diversion.

 

[Obiwan]

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.

Really???? I just confirmed that Byrd was still a racist after he got into the U S Senate.....

Guess that Liberal Education is working real good for you.... When do you start first-grade level math?????

Go learn to read your own post there, Evelyn Wood.
What you actually posted was -- "West Virginia is believable..... Isn't that where Robert Byrd, the prominent Democrat KKK leader was from?"

And I schooled you on both.

Let's see.... Byrd was a Democrat, he was from West Virginia, and he was an Exalted Cyclops in the KKK.....

Are you insinuating that he was insignificant because he was a Democrat and a U S Senator????

If not, I proved my point.... Now recess is over, so run back inside for reading class......

You proved that you're illiterate, yes. Byrd came from North Carolina, was in the KKK in the early 1940s and quit before ever running for public office. And STTAB is ::choke:: right that that's got nothing to do with anything going on right now, in the Democratic Party. No more than Klanners Edward Jackson and Rice Means, to name two, mean anything going on right now with the Republican Party.

Actually, Byrd was born in North Carolina, but he went to live with an aunt and uncle in West Virginia after his mom died when he was around 1 year old.... Are you suggesting that the Democrats start being racist and joining the KKK before they get out of diapers?????