A map of the racist tweets sent during the election on tuesday shows us that racism still reigns in the south where the racist tweets to election tweet ratio was still shockingly high. Even though President Obama won, there’s still clearly a lot needed to be done for race relations in the United States Of America. Hit the Jump for more.
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A flurry of racist tweets that followed President Barack Obama’s re-election came primarily from southern states, according to a map that geographically pinpointed the point of origin of the hate speech.

Tweets calling the president a “monkey” or using racial epithets prompted a group of geography experts to try and break down whether the hateful language was more prevalent in some areas of the country than others.
As it turns out, it was.

The bigoted tweets serve as a “useful reminder that technology reflects the society in which it is based, both the good and the bad,” said geography research group Floating Sheep.

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