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The "Geography of Hate," is a study by "Floating Sheep" that includes a color-coded image that maps out racist, homophobic and anti-disability tweets in the US.

"Hateful tweets were aggregated to the county level and then normalized by the total number of tweets in each county," the group writes in a detailed explanation of the study. "This then shows a comparison of places with disproportionately high amounts of a particular hate word relative to all tweeting activity."
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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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