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RacialAnimus: Racial Animus and City Demgraphics

Description

Demographics and a measurement of racial animus in cities based on Google searches

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 196 observations on the following 7 variables.

MediaMarket

City (State)

Age65Plus

Percentage 65 and older

BachPlus

Percentage with a bachelor's degree

Black

Percentage of African-Americans

Hispanic

Percentage of Hispanics

ObamaKerry

Percentage of vote won by Obama in 2008 minus Kerry percentage in 2004

Animus

Measurement (0-250) of racial animus

Details

Professor Seth Stephens-Davidowitz studies the level of racial animus across different areas in America by measuring the percent of Google search queries that include racially charged language. A measurement, Animus, is derived from his algorithm and is scaled to be between 0 (low racial animus) and 250 (high racial animus). The dataset includes those values along with demographic information about each media market.