This week the PA Health department has changed how it reports the cases and deaths.  Before they reported the cases and deaths.  Later,they reported the number of negative tests in addition to the positive tests.  They then added the demographics of the cases and deaths.  Along the way they created the chart above showing the […]

In the midst of the hoopla over Coronavirus, the Southern Poverty Law Center has come out with its annual hate map.  In 2019, they were tracking 940 hate groups which was down from 1,020 in 2018.  Adjusting for the US population, there were 2.86 groups per million in 2019 which was down from 3.12 groups […]

The Southern Poverty Law Center has published it’s annual hate group estimates for each state in the US.  They tracked 1,020 groups last year which is the most they’ve ever tracked.  The next highest number they tracked was 1,018 in 2011.  Adjusting these national numbers for population gives 3.27 groups per million in 2011 and […]

The Southern Poverty Law Center has come out with it’s annual census of hate groups which shows .  Last week I wrote extensively on the national hate group numbers at The Hill Talk.  This week I will l look at a new way of measuring the reach of these groups. The hate map for Pennssylvania […]

Working on a data set and then posting it on this blog (or putting it in a presentation for work) takes a long time.  In The Nation Magazine I read an article that must have taken a long time to put together on white voters fear of diversity and their likelihood to vote for Trump.  […]

This week the Southern Poverty Law Center came out with it’s hate map for 2016.  They found an increase in the total number of hate groups in the US from 892 in 2015 to 917 in 2016.  For the last three years I have been adjusting the hate group numbers for the population in the […]

Earlier this year the Southern Poverty Law Center created a map showing the concentration of hate groups in the US.  I adjusted the number of groups in each state by the population in each state  showing a different picture.  Just after the election the FBI issued a new report that hate crimes in the US […]

Donald J. Trump and former KKK leader David Duke Last week I posted on how the number of hate groups in the US changed after adjusting for the population in each state.  The Southern Poverty Law Center attributed the increase in hate groups to hateful rhetoric in the 2016 election from Donald Trump including the […]

In 2014 the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) produced the above map showing the location of hate groups that they are tracking with a total of 939 groups nationwide.  The four states with the highest number of groups were California, Florida, Texas, and New York.  As these are the four states with the highest population […]

 This is an essay I wrote for admission to a Masonic lodge.                Opinions differ about what human rights are.  The UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was championed by Eleanor Roosevelt, has 30 articles.  The Declaration of Independence famous statement that “all men are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that […]