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The "Bad Rapp" of the South

by impudent on Sun 25 Dec 2005 05:11 AM PST | Permanent Link | Cosmos

Beating the "Bad Rapp" of racism in the South

    This is very important. In recent online discussions I have been twice accused of being a racist when the person arguing with me found out I live in Houston Texas. There seems to be this bigoted stereotype that those of us in the southern United States are just a bunch of unenlightened inbred racist bastards. It was very unsettling to me to be accused of this living as I do in one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the USA, and one which has a very good record of race relations.
    So, I decided to do some research. I came up with two objective criteria for indicating a possible racial relations problem in an area: 1. Incidents of hate crime, 2. Race inspired riots. I found something very interesting.
     According to the FBI Hate crime table* In the most recent year 2004, there were 1,397 hate crimes reported in the twelve southern states for a percentage of population of .00181. In the rest of the country there were 6,252 incidents for a percentage of population of .00353 or almost double the rate in the southern states.

    I also compiled from news sources a list of twenty one race - based riots occurring in the last forty years in the United States. (I ignored riots caused by labor unrest, anti globalization, Vietnam war etc.)
1. Watts Riots - Los Angeles, Ca. 1965
2.&3. Newark and Plainfield Riots - New Jersey, July 1967
4. 12th Street riot - Detroit Michigan, 1967
5. April - Washington, DC. 1968
6. April - Baltimore, Maryland. 1968
7. York race riots - York, Pennsylvania July 1969
8. August - Camden, New Jersey, 1971
9. Fenkell Ave. - Detroit Michigan, 1975
10. May - Miami, Fla. 1980
11. Nov. - Washington, DC. 1982
12. Overton Riot - Miami, Fla. 1982
13.&14. Miami and Tampa riots, Florida 1988
15. May - Washington, DC. 1991
16. Crown Heights - New York, Aug, 1991
17. Rodney King Riot - Los Angeles, Ca. 1992
18. Race riot - St. Petersburg, Fla. 1996
19. April race riots - Cincinnati, Oh. 2001
20. Fat Tuesday riot - Seattle, Washington. 2001
21. Oct. - Toledo, Oh. 2005

    As you can see only five of the 21 occurred in the south, and all of those in just one state, Florida! I think its time for those who like to bash the south to now just shut up and stop throwing stones in your glass house.

*http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2004/hctable12.html

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Re: The "Bad Rapp" of the South

by KuhnKat on Wed 28 Dec 2005 03:00 PM PST | Profile | Permanent Link

Do you find it interesting that not only are most racial problems NOT in the south, they are concentrated in Lefty controlled Major Population Centers???

I feel there is no question of the connection between policies used by the left and poor performance and attitudes of the people that they "HELP".

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Re: The "Bad Rapp" of the South

by costica palmaciu on Fri 04 Dec 2009 07:28 PM PST | Permanent Link

I have some relatives in the south and I must say that they don't deserve the "bad rapp" they get. some very decent people out there.
tim tempurpedic

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