Study: N.D. high in rate of racist election tweets

A small but vocal group of disgruntled North Dakotans took to the Web after last week’s election to put the state on the map in an ugly way. According to a group of researchers who crunch online geographic data, the state was among the national leaders in the rate of racist messages on Twitter posted before and after President Barack Obama’s re-election.

By: By Marino Eccher, Forum Communications, The Jamestown Sun