Where America’s Racist Tweets Come From by Megan Garber.
WARNING: The cited article has very racist and offensive tweets. They are reproduced to illustrate the technique, not to promote racism.
Megan reports on the work of Floating Sheep, geography academics.
Surprising thing about the geographic distribution (it’s pretty much all over the nation) is the lack of racist tweets from Montana. Where all the survivalist types have bunkered up.
Then I remembered, they don’t have Internet access in log and dirt bunkers. Probably no electricity or running water as well. Some politics are their own reward. 😉
You may also appreciate the longer original post at Floating Sheep: Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama’s Re-election.
Illustrates mapping of tweets by geo-locations.
Mapping against other characteristics of geo-locations could be interesting as well.
I first saw this in a tweet by Ed Chi.