Two people who sent me email in response to my first graph on alt.politics.white-power objected to my lumping Blacks and Hispanics together as one variable, as I did in the graph in Part 9, and they had a good point. There may be racial differences between Blacks and the mestizos that we usually consider "Hispanics." So I graphed the data again, this time using the X axis to measure the percent of the population that is Black, the Y axis to measure the percent of the population that is Hispanic, and to indicate the violent crime rate I color-coded the data points (as well as enlarged them in especially heavy crime areas). The data indicate that, with some exceptions that differences in local laws might account for, both Blacks and Hispanics exhibit disproportionately high tendencies to commit violent crimes, with Blacks being somewhat the more vicious of the two.

Hey Liberals! Do you think that any of the points in the above graph is inaccurately represented? Check my work!

The conclusion is clear: The whiter the demographics in the area where you live, the safer you probably are. The exceptions are interesting, however.

Mississippi, a state with a 35% Black population, somehow manages to keep its annual rate of violent crimes under 600 crimes per 100,000 persons per year. That's an astonishingly low rate of violence for a state with so many Blacks. Mississippi's rate is commensurate with those of Pennsylvania and Connecticut, which states are only nine percent Black. To put it another way, Mississippi is a state where over one-third of the population is Negro, but it keeps the violent crime rate down at a level you'd expect of a state having no more than one-tenth of its population Black.

Something similar is going on with Virginia, where about one-fifth of the population is Black. But Virginia maintains the same relatively low rate of violent crime that you'd expect of a state where no more than five percent (1/20^th) of the population were Black.

Whatever the governments of Virginia and Mississippi are doing, they should keep on doing it. It is hard to believe that the Blacks in those states just happen to be more civilized than those in neighboring areas, and it seems more likely that differences in the laws and government social programs (or the lack thereof) are to be blamed (or credited) for the difference in the rates of violent crime.