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Re:Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own ... by bluGill on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:49PM (#18077813)
You won't be beaten to death in Red states. They will make you feel unwelcome/uncomfortable, but they are not so violent as to beat you to death.

Yes some people are that violent. However such people are everywhere. You are more likely to find them in the blue states just because the population density is higher.

Re:Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own ... by komali2 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:11PM (#18078074)
The FBI seems to disagree.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2016/tables/table-11

https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2016/tables/table-12

Note that the tables seem to differentiate between

The state with the most hate crimes was California, at 931. California's population is 40 million. Next up is New York, at 595 incidents over 20 million citizens. Pretty close per person to California. (.000023 vs .000029, someone check my math).

Next up... Ohio, 442 incidents to 10 million citizens. .000044. Michigan, 399 to 10 million. Kentucky, oh Kentucky, 206 to 4.4 million.

Re:Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own ... by romed on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:11PM (#18078075)
I'm sorry but I am from Oklahoma and you are incorrect. Gay people are regularly beaten, threatened, have their houses burned, and are even murdered. It has been less than a year since drive-by shootings at LGBT organizations in both Tulsa and Oklahoma City.

"In March, the Tulsa headquarters of Oklahomans for Equality was the victim of a similar incident. Security camera video caught a white truck drive by and fire more than a dozen times at the center early in the morning on March 6."

Re:Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own ... by bobthepanda on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:08PM (#18078035)
Even if homophobes are just as present, blue states have a more accommodating legal framework to prosecute them.

LGBT persons are not a protected class at the federal level: look at a map of states that include it as a protected class, and nearly all the states that don't include it are red. http://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/non_discrimination_laws