“The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines a hate crime as criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.” According to the website https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map the map shows mostly all hate crimes are concentrated in the Eastern part of the United States. Particularly in Texas the most hate crimes are in areas such as Dallas, Houston, And Austin. Black Nationalist, Male Supremacy, and Anti- Muslim to name a few hate crimes categories increasing across Texas. The south has always been notorious for hate crimes and violent crimes and with the released statistics above it shows the concentration of hate crimes in the more dense and populated areas of the state.
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