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It seems lynching density goes beyond mere population density, especially along the Mississippi river valley: http://mcdc-maps.missouri.edu/totalpop1790-2010/im

• IndianAstronaut 12y ago
  This seems like an opportunity for predictive analytics to figure out which areas are most prone to lynchings and some intervention methods to prevent them.
  • maxerickson 12y ago
    Yes, there was a lot of energy put into stopping this sort of thing in the US in the 1960s. That's why it stopped. (Wikipedia seems to have good coverage of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_%281954%E2%80%9368%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_M... )
    • maxerickson 12y ago
      I've probably overstated the role of the civil rights movement there. Certainly, part of the outcome of the civil rights movement was a national expression of the unacceptability of racially motivated mob violence, but things like state police forces and the national guard (both were more willing to resist mobs than local police had been) and changing attitudes in the south had contributed to starting the decline.