The general trend for the 50 US states, as well as for the major US cities, is that the higher the percentage of non-Whites there is in the population, the higher the rate of violent crime is. (I'm not the first to have noticed the correlation. It was also pointed out in Ideology and censorship in behavior genetics by Glayde Whitney, Past President Behavior Genetics Association Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, in Vol. 35 of Mankind Quarterly, 06-01-1995, pp 327.)

Massachusetts is a state with a population that is 5.7% Black and 5.7% Hispanic, but it has a violent crime rate of over 800 crimes per 100,000 persons per year. The racial demographics for Massachusetts are similar to those in Kansas and Rhode Island, but the rate of violent crimes in Massachusetts is roughly twice that in those other two states. It is tempting to conclude that there is something wrong with the way the law works in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts is a (fairly) White state, though by no means is it among the nation's Whitest. But in relation to the percentage of Blacks and Hispanic residents, Massachusetts has an above-the-trend crime rate. One Liberal, arguing with me on the MSNBC board titled "Race in America" (which was terminated by MSNBC shortly after racists started beating the liberals in debates) pointed to Massachusetts and argued that it was the Whites who were doing the crimes there. But when I studied the county-level crime data, here is what I found:

Hey Liberals! Do you think that I put any of these points in the wrong place? Check my work!

Even if this Liberal had found in Massachusetts a state that bucked the trend of the other 49 states (plus the District of Columbia), an exception would have been all he would have found. He would not have disproved the rule of the general trend: Whites are more lawful than non-Whites. But even in Massachusetts, although it is a mostly White state, it is the Blacks and Hispanics who are committing most of the crimes there, too. This Liberal hadn't even found an exception.

Texas has a lower rate of violent crime than California, despite the fact that Texas has a higher percentage of Blacks and a roughly equal percentage of Hispanics, as compared with California. One of my correspondents reports that there may be a relatively higher incidence of racial prejudice on the part of Whites in Texas than in California, which, he speculates, might be causing an increased White wariness toward people of color. And I've noticed that Texas executes death-row prisoners faster than any other state.

As mentioned in Part 10 Mississippi and Virginia have fewer violent crimes than would be expected from the trend of the other US states.

There are three counties in South Carolina (Greenville, Spartenburg and York Counties) that had elevated rates for violent crimes between 1990 and 1993 that cannot be explained by their racial compositions. Interestingly, the three counties are almost together in the northern part of the state, along or near a stretch of Interstate 85. If I were a senior law enforcement official for the State of South Carolina, I'd suspect that there might have been some specific factor that might give these counties' crime rates for those years some coherence — something beyond random criminal activity.

Those are the major anomalies. The overall trend, however, swamps them. White areas are safer than non-White areas, unless Liberal laws and social policies work very hard to spoil things for the Whites anyway.