"The F.B.I. released its 2008 data on hate crimes in the U.S. The highest upticks occurred for hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation (up 11 percent) and religion (up 9 percent)."Sudhir Venkatesh writes:
Hate crimes seem to go up in the spring and summer months (hibernation?). Hate crimes against whites do occur, though they make up only one-fourth as much as anti-black crimes; the hate crimes against blacks make up nearly three-fourths of all race-based hate crimes. Whites make up about 79 percent of the American population: they commit about 60 percent of all hate crimes. READ MORE
