15 Most Racist States in America Ranked By Hate Crimes in 2017

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5. New Jersey

Incidents: 169

New Jersey may be a tiny state as far as territory goes, but it has close to 9 million residents. Some 72.4% of the citizens here are white, data shows.

Here too we notice that racism is a motive for most of the hate crimes reported here too, although incidents targeting the LGBT+ community come next.

15 Most Racist States in America Ranked By Hate Crimes in 2017

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