Morgante, Victoria. Make America hate again: a quantitative analysis on the effects of presidential rhetoric during the Obama and Trump administration. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-9qfz-7771
DescriptionThis research paper explores the potential impact of hate rhetoric on the frequency of hate crime events in the U.S. in the past decade. It evaluates two different styles of Presidential speech in seeking to explain the incidence of hate crimes; President Obama’s more diplomatic speech approach versus President Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric. The project uses volunteer-coded speech analysis, to compare hate crimes on a quarterly basis and evaluate the annual fluctuation of hate crimes against Hispanics and Latino/as . This research paper finds a suggestive relationship between hate speech occurrences and hate crime events, but due to lack of appropriate data sources, it cannot claim causation.