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| Blue-state hate |
| 08.31.06 (11:33 am) [edit] |
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Copyright © 2006 Republican-American Ask the average Joe where he thinks most of America's hate crimes occur, and he's apt to guess Mississippi, Alabama or another state stereotypically overrun with redneck lynch mobs. He would dismiss as preposterous the idea that such enlightened, diverse states such as New Jersey, Michigan, Minnesota and Connecticut are bastions of bigots. He'd be whistling Dixie. According to the latest FBI statistics, crimes motivated by race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin or disability are 44 times more likely to occur in New Jersey than Mississippi. The states with the lowest rates were Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana and Wyoming, the last made infamous by the case of case of Matthew Shepard, the homosexual who was beaten to death in 1998. New Jersey, on the other hand, was No. 1 in bigotry, followed by Michigan, Montana and Minnesota and Arkansas.
Out of the 19 states and the District of Columbia that voted for John Kerry for president in 2004, 15 were among the top 25 in hate crimes. All six New England states landed in the top 25, with Massachusetts leading the way at No. 6; Connecticut was 21st with a rate 23 times higher than Alabama's and Mississippi's. If there is a silver lining in these statistics, it's this: The FBI logged 7,649 hate crimes in 2004, which represent one-half of 1 percent of all violent crimes and a meaninglessly small percentage of all crimes that year. More than twice as many Americans were victims of homicides than bias crimes. Though the liberals and the mainstream news media want the public to believe hate crimes are epidemic in this country, the statistics refute that notion even as they reveal where America's real bigots live. Interesting article. |
posted by: ash (reply)
post date: 09.14.06 (1:27 pm)
wow, good point. Nice post.
