Regional patterns of hate across the US

[struggle4progress]

BY ELANA GLOWATZ
02/09/18 AT 3:07 PM

... Researchers investigating the phenomenon on a county-by-county level found connections between hate and low community diversity; increased poverty; less education; and a more consistent population. But .. the factors contributed in varying degrees depending on the location.

In the central U.S., for example, socioeconomics are more important than population. But on the West Coast, ethnic diversity and poverty levels are key drivers for hate groups. The East Coast is affected most by population change — when there is more change, there are fewer hate groups.

"Our world is changing at an accelerating rate, causing both social and economic strain and fear of it," the study says. "There is no one specific cause of hate, although, generally speaking, it typically stems from fear: fear of change, fear of marginalization, and fear of resource loss. These fears are different based on place" ...

"People hate for different reasons because U.S. regions have different situations and histories," .. co-author Emily Nicolosi said ... "For example, the Northeast is a place of power that may be seen as elitist and well-educated. Is there still hate? Yes. Some of the reasons people hate there are different than in the South, where there’s a different history of the Confederacy, of discrimination, and so on."

http://www.ibtimes.com/scientists-chart-regional-patterns-hate-across-us-2651970

[raging moderate]

1. They think the Confederacy had no elitism?

The neo-feudalistic social order of the Confederacy featured an extreme elitism.

[struggle4progress]

2. From the paper:

... Less diversity, more poverty, less population change, and less education correlate with more hate groups ... The central part of the country seems most affected by socioeconomics, although population change is not a big driver of hate groups in that region ... The West Coast shows stronger positive relationships between percentage white, non-Latino and percentage at poverty and hate groups than the East Coast ... The East Coast is least affected by all variables, except population change, where it is the most affected. Like the other regions, greater population change correlates with fewer hate groups ... The West Coast is not affected by political conservatism; however, it is affected by religion. Throughout the coast, and inland into Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, counties have a relatively strong negative relationship between religion and hate groups. More religious adherents reduces the number of hate groups per capita also in the Northeast and parts of the Southeast and Midwest. More adherents increases hate groups per capita in much of the central United States and much of the East Coast, including Florida ... Increased percentages of political conservatives were linked to more hate in the same regions that also had a positive association with religion ... Finally, there seems to be an interaction between conservative political ideology and religion for areas in the central East Coast and central United States. In other words, religion’s effect on hate group activity is likely influenced by the degree of political conservatism, and that influence varies by region ...

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[Dread Pirate Roberts]

3. I went to the actual article

it was in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. Who knew that would have some of the most interesting reading. It contained an interesting map.

Geographies of Organized Hate in America: A Regional Analysis
Domestic extremism is an increasing threat to security and stability within the United States. Until the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, the number of people killed in the United States after 11 September 2001 by domestic right wing extremists and Jihadist extremists was almost equal, although more were killed by domestic extremists for the majority of that time period. A general increase for both began after 2008 (Bergen et al. 2016 Bergen, P., A. Ford, A. Sims, and D. Sterman. 2016. Terrorism in America after 9/11: Part IV. What is the threat to the United States today? New America Foundation. Accessed January 7, 2017.
http://www.newamerica.org/in-depth/terrorism-in-america/what-threat-united-states-today/#americas-layered-defenses
. [Google Scholar]). There have been many recent radical right wing mass shootings in the United States, including the 2012 shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, that left six dead and three wounded; the 2014 shooting at a Jewish community center and retirement community in Overland Park, Kansas, with three deaths; and the 2015 church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, which killed nine. The 2011 and 2012 shooters had connections to hate-based organizations, and the 2015 shooter admitted to being inspired by one (Southern Poverty Law Center 2016c ———. 2016c. Terror from the right. Accessed July 15, 2016.
https://www.splcenter.org/20100126/terror-right
. [Google Scholar]). More recently, a suspected hate-driven murder of an African American student at a University of Maryland campus bus stop in 2017 was committed by a member of the Facebook group “Alt-Reich: Nation” (Yan, Simon, and Graef 2017 Yan, H., D. Simon, and A. Graef. 2017. Campus killing: Suspect is a member of “Alt-Reich” Facebook group, police say. CNN, May 22. Accessed July 19, 2017.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/22/us/university-of-maryland-stabbing/index.html
. [Google Scholar]).

You can read the entire article here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24694452.2017.1411247?scroll=top&needAccess=true

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Thanks for providing link.