As used in my presentation, I will use this graph to indicate that the most hate crimes which are due to race occur in places other than the South. California, New York, and Michigan all have the most occurrences of hate crime in their state. While states like Georgia, and Alabama, have very little hate crime due to race.

This is where I say that the Southern Identity can be misrepresented because of past events such as Slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other forms of racism. 50 years after racism is over, people still have the argument that the South is racist. While some people in the South might be racist, I think it is inaccurate to say that the WHOLE South is racist.