article_snippet.sent: Searches for n****r are less frequent in regions west of Texas.
article_snippet.sent: As part of the study, researchers at the University of Maryland, Columbia University, Emory University and Harvard University looked at searches containing the slur n****r.
article_snippet.sent: Searches for n****r are less frequent in regions west of Texas.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers discovered 41,306 tweets containing the word n****r, 95,123 referenced 'homo', among other terms.
article_snippet.sent: Tweets that included the slur n****r, were not concentrated in any single region in the US.
article_snippet.sent: Instead, there are a number of pockets of concentration, including East Iowa, where 31 users sent out 41 tweets referencing the word, and Fountain, Indiana, where there were 22 tweets containing the slur n****r.
article_snippet.sent: Perhaps the most interesting concentration comes for references to 'wetback' - a derogatory term used for illegal Mexican immigrants.
article_snippet.sent: Most tweets containing the offensive term came from several parts of Texas, which surprisingly are not even close to the Mexican-American border.
highlights_snippet.sent: Map based on number of Google searches containing the slur n****r .
  