Hate, like most four-letter knuckle tattoos, is a bad look. But that didn’t stop hate crimes in America from reaching their highest level in a decade in 2019, nor the number of hate groups from doubling between 1999 and 2019. But how much hate is there on a state-by-state basis? Well, Best Life crunched the numbers to determine the most hateful state in America.
We used multiple data points to help us measure violent crime, hate crime, groups engaging in hate speech, and more general bias. First, we looked at the percentage of people with first- or second-hand experience of violent crime in the last year in each state, as reported
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