The housing web site Abodo recently conducted a survey, as part of its “Best Places to Live” study, on what are the most and least hateful states/cities based ” language Americans use when tweeting about different races, ethnicities, genders, religions, and sexual orientations.”
Guess which state placed third on the most hateful list. Yep, it was Texas, with 929 per 100,000 tweets including derogatory — aka hateful — language. Louisiana was in first place, with 1,155 per 100,000 tweets with derogatory language. Nevada barely beat out Texas for the No. 2 spot with 929 per 100,000 tweets including hateful language. Rounding out the top 10 were, in order of hatefulness, Maryland, Delaware, Ohio, California, Michigan, Georgia and Rhode Island.
(Rhode Island? Really?)
The survey also breaks down the hate, by state and by city, based on which particular slurs are used — anti-black, anti-Hispanic, anti-woman, anti-gay/lesbian and anti-transgender. The study also includes information on which states generated the most tweets with language that was derogatory toward the cognitively disabled and/or derogatory toward those who are overweight.
There are six charts included in the study that compare derogatory tweets on specific subjects by city — two on anti-woman tweets, one including “bitch” as a keyword, and one without — and at least one Texas city makes the top 10 on all six lists. And, here’s the interesting part, Arlington, Texas makes the top 10 on every list but the anti-trans list.
Let’s go subject by subject (each number is derogatory tweets per 100,000).
First of all, lets talk LGBT topics.
Anti-gay/lesbian: Suprisingly enough, Buffalo, N.Y. claims the No. 1 spot on this list with 168 tweets per 100,000. And good ol’ Arlington is right up there at No. 2 with 161. The only other Texas city to make this list is Corpus Christi at No. 10 with 122. I admit, I was surprised to see that five California cities were on this list, including Riverside, Fontana, Bakersfield, Modesto and Oxnard. Round out the top 10 are Lincoln at No. 5 and New Orleans at No. 10.
Anti-transgender: This one, quite frankly, really surprised me. The No. 1 city for anti-transgender tweets is Las Vegas, with 99 per 100,000. It also surprised me that not one Texas city — not even Arlington — is in the top 10. Instead, Florida and California cities dominate. Following Las Vegas, from No. 2 through No. 10, are Orlando, Tampa, Miami, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pittsburgh and — believe it or not — San Francisco.
San Francisco registered 15 anti-transgender tweets per 100,000. Maybe that doesn’t sound like many, but it was No. 10 on the list. San Francisco registered more anti-transgender tweets than any city in Texas!
Moving on.
Anti-black:Baltimore leads with 82. Arlington is No. 5 with 56, and Garland, Texas isNo. 9 with 51. Others in the top 10 are, Atlanta, New Orleans, Newark,Norfolk, Lincoln, Buffalo and Madison (Wisconsin).
Anti-Hispanic: Bakersfield, Calif., was No. 1, with 24. Garland is No. 6 on this list, with 14, and Arlington is right behind at No. 7, with 13. San Antonio makes the list in the No. 10 spot. Six of the 10 are California cities — Chula Vista, Modesto, Fontana, Riverside and Morena Valley (Nos. 1-5 and No. 7). Rounding out the top 10 is Miami at No. 9.
Anti-woman, including “bitch”: New Orleans is No. 1, with 3,696. Houston is No. 4 with 2,353, and Arlington is No. 6 with 2,252. Also in the top 10 are Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Baltimore, Cleveland, Newark, Detroit and Norfolk.
Anti-woman, excluding “bitch”: Atlanta takes the top spot here, with 1,580, and Arlington — the only Texas city on this particular list — is No. 3 with 1,253. Also in the top 10 are Newark, New Orleans, Boston, Orlando, Miami, Baltimore, Los Angeles and Oakland.
To read the entire study, go here.
Arlington full of hate, Abodo survey says
