>>>> Come and live in Pembrokeshire, S Wales. There was a 100% increase in racist incidents last year - from one to two. Our little village (around 150 full time residents) has at least 5-mixed race couples that I know of.
Hate crimes happen everywhere - motivated by race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation... wouldn't we have to consider all the terrorist suicide bombing reported to be hate crimes? I can't remember ever hearing of one in my small community either, Mic, and there are interracial couples here too. After hearing the state of KY blasted for racism last night, which triggered Mary's question about in the state, just on a hunch, I did some searches for statistics on hate crimes in the USA. The FBI sites shows the number of hate crime incidents per year on http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2006/incidents.html and specifically per state on http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2006/table12.html I would expect there to be some diversity across the country in how these are reported, but interestingly enough, the top 15 states with the HIGHEST per capita reporting of hate crimes for 2006 are (in order): South Dakota, District of Columbia, New Jersey, Michigan, Massachusetts, Delaware, Kansas, Nevada, Virginia, Maine, Arkansas, Oregon. Nebraska, Maryland, Connecticut and California. The fifteen states with the LOWEST per capita reported incidents of hate crimes in 2006 are, in order: Mississippi, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Louisiana, Wyoming, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Utah, Indiana, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Idaho. Kentucky was just behind Idaho, at 17th. The numbers are low, so trying to put a per capita ranking on these crimes is really pretty meaningless, but hate crimes were reported in 2006 in every state except Mississippi. If anyone can find a geographical pattern to these numbers re: state ranking, I'd like to know what it is, because I sure can't see a pattern. For instance, NC is low, but Virginia is high? Wyoming and Idaho are low, but South Dakota is high? Arkansas is high, but Louisiana is low? There are high and low incident rates in neighboring states across this country. Go figure... Interesting that three states with the highest incidents per capita of hate crimes are Maine, Connecticut and Massachusetts, since much of the country perceives New England as liberal... but I guess that just shows that no part of the country is immune from hate. Mary, I don't think I'd be any more worried living in KY than in California...but it only takes one nutcase to endanger any of us, no matter where we are. (Note that despite the infamous Oklahoma City bombing by white-supremacist-terrorist Timothy McVeigh, OK had lower than average number of hate crimes reported.) Karen Thomas, NC No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.0/1180 - Release Date: 12/10/2007 2:51 PM IceHorses Community for Photos and Videos: http://kickapps.com/icehorses "The greatest enemy of the truth very often is not the lie- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer [] Lee Ziegler http://leeziegler.com [] Liz Graves http://lizgraves.com [] Lee's Book Easy Gaited Horses http://tinyurl.com/7vyjo [] IceHorses Map http://www.frappr.com/IceHorses Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
