1. California
Incidents: 427
Finally, at the top of our list, we have California – a state that’s home to close to 40 million people. Under these circumstances, there’s very little surprise that the number of hate crimes is the highest in the entire country.
Trump’s win seems to have brought the worst in people here too, as Los Angeles, for instance, saw a 29% increase in hate crimes in the last quarter of 2016, a study shows. The 2015 data the FBI has shown that the number of hate crimes triggered by racism was larger than all other types of hate crimes combined.
The numbers provided by the FBI might be under what’s really happening simply because not all hate crimes are reported as such and, furthermore, not all law enforcement agencies do their part of reporting the data properly. Either way, with the available data, these have been the most racist states in America ranked by hate crimes in 2017.
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