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DesertDrifter

07/15/13 4:51 PM

#82086 RE: midas98 #82085

well, most people, if asked how many blacks were lynched, would think of it in terms of totals, not rates per 100,000. i am not sure why you are so interested in rates, when that doesn't really answer what he posed. I have no reason to be argumentative, i am just posting the facts.

More latinos were not lynched than blacks.

because of the smaller population size at that time of latinos, the rate was higher for awhile, but that has nothing to do with the totals. That data is also fraught with potential biases also, as if one used census data, many illegals would be missed, and perhaps some census takers were not so good at identifying hispanics correctly, and were not even recorded as an ethnicity in some years, so the "per 100,00" is probably over-estimated since many latinos were probably not counted as such in many cases. I know that you know what that does to the rates.

But yeah, for sure, not a proud part of our history.