With the topic of racial division increasingly top of mind in America, The Washington Post reports [4] a new study suggests [5]that the rural Northeat and South are the most racist regions of America. The study, based on Goggle searches for race-related phrases, shows racist people in the U.S. appear to be clustered along the Appalachian Mountains from Georgia, through New York and all the way up to Vermont.
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Think Google Searches for the "n-word" are irrelevant? Think again...
"Results from our study indicate that living in an area characterized by a one standard deviation greater proportion of racist Google searches is associated with an 8.2% increase in the all-cause mortality rate among Blacks," the authors conclude.
Other hotbeds of racist searches appear in areas of the Gulf Coast, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and a large portion of Ohio.
Perhaps on a bright note,
But the searches get rarer the further West you go.
West of Texas, no region falls into the "much more than average" category.
So America could be less divided that some think... perhaps.
