(The Root) — Think you live in an enlightened, progressive part of the country? Are you sure? Floating Sheep, a website "dedicated to mapping and analyzing user generated geocoded data," is helping you figure it out. The site recently analyzed and geo-tagged 150,000 tweets that contained what they call "discriminatory speech" — racist, homophobic and ableist terms. They plotted their data in a map that shows from which areas of the country such speech is most likely to come.
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It may come as no surprise that the majority of hateful tweets analyzed came from the Southeast. The same was true for a similar study done that mapped racist tweets aimed at President Obama after his re-election in 2012.
Where does your city stand?
Read more at Floating Sheep.
Tracy Clayton is a writer, humorist and blogger from Louisville, Ky.
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