Science "Racism" map formed from Google searches overlaps with Trump voter map

This is fascinating (and depressing) for lots of different reasons, so read the whole thing, not just this inflammatory segment:

And then there is the phenomenon of Donald Trump’s candidacy. When Nate Silver, the polling guru, looked for the geographic variable that correlated most strongly with support in the 2016 Republican primary for Trump, he found it in the map of racism I had developed. To be provocative and to encourage more research in this area, let me put forth the following conjecture, ready to be tested by scholars across a range of fields. The primary explanation for discrimination against African Americans today is not the fact that the people who agree to participate in lab experiments make subconscious associations between negative words and black people; it is the fact that millions of white Americans continue to do things like search for “nigger jokes”.

 

pretty thought provoking information contained in the article

 

"Polling," lol...

 

They move to tolerant places. Imagine that.

 

article was mostly about google search data extrapolations, triggers and reasons behind searches, very little about politics and little about polling.

 

Reading is hard apparently.

 

Who, racists?

 

Fake map.

He has no way to know the color of the people searching for racist jokes.

Also, a "Trump" voting map covers nearly 90% of America's land surface so what can be derived from that?

 

How sad is it that good old fashioned racist jokes have to be searched out on the internet? Google ruined that like Amazon is killing Macy's.

 

I believe most of his conclusions are likely true if not 100 percent.

Example, I've asked a billion people why Jews are bad. I could never understand why, that they wanted money and good jobs? So, someone Google searching Jews are evil doesn't necessarily believe that they are.

The racism against blacks as a group is obvious. Very few people will admit why they think it still exists. One doesn't need to search years of anonymous Google searches to see it. Just read the comments on one yahoo article about a black person committing a crime.

 

Duh, just an example. Sears too.

Even shoe stores are run by morons. They make shoes my size but few carry them. The supposed "world's largest Skechers outlet" in Vegas only carries up to a 13. I can get 15w Skechers on Amazon and save myself the trouble of going to a store.

 

Macy's selling cheap Chinese crap for premium prices isn't a great business model in my opinion.

 

Hahahaha, it's probably all Trump under different names.

Walked through a Dillards at the mall last year and saw a Vera Wang (I think) brand woman's shirt. 250 bucks.

Made in China. Hahahahaha who the fuck would buy that?

 

Some people will pay top dollar for a good wang. I'm not one of em. But, I understand.

 

"It's pruneTANG not pruneWANG."

 

True. But I reserve the right to change it if I ever feel so inclined. I doubt that will change after 34 years of tang, but, I still have the right, dammit!

 

I was first introduced to the word as a lad, 16, 17 or so. A buddy and I liked to visit this old timer that had a place up Rock creek on the North Santiam. By old timer, I mean really old. I remember
getting his age as 103 during one of our visits. We usually got a glass of home made beer, perhaps Elderberry wine and probably a hunk of bear jerky to go with the yarns. The bear jerky lasted through the whole thing.

Anyway, as I remember it, it's Punetang and you need to let it work up to the second syllable, pooon - tang and cut the second short. Of course I am not doing the yarn justice, no way to play it out like Old Art could do. That punetang makes it all happen, way more important than bear jerky. A lad needs elders of that caliber.