Geography of Hate

[Winchester]

[JDHURF]

[JDHURF]

[Aaron]

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Did no one read that it was normalized by number of tweets? It's got nothing to do with population density, heck, look at the Los Angeles or Bay area to see that it's not a function of population density. It's a relative measure, not an absolute one. Strictly speaking, it doesn't speak of populations, merely of the population of twitter users, which may or may not (probably the latter) be a decent proxy of the population at large.

[Spider]

Wow. So maybe the other side of the Mississippi really does suck.

[PoS]

[JDHURF]

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[JDHURF]

It does have to do with population density because urban areas, where there are the most hateful tweets, also happen to be where there is the most broadband access and use, whereas rural areas, where there are no such hateful tweets on the map, often do not even have access to the internet at all, making tweeting in general impossible.