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For any copyright, please send me a message. After the 2016 presidential election, which left many in America worried about rising bigotry, HuffPost partnered with the Documenting Hate project, a media collaborative led by ProPublica. The project includes a database of tips: thousands of reports from victims and witnesses of hate incidents from around the country. Combing through that database, HuffPost noticed the prevalence of the phrase “go back to your country,” as if America’s bigots were all speaking from the same script. We started keeping track of these “go back” incidents, filing them away in a separate database of our own. Our hope was that it might help us examine what hate looks like in the era of President Donald Trump. Then, earlier this year, Trump himself told four congresswomen of color, all of whom are American, to “go back” where they came from. It felt like our project took on a new kind of urgency. Ultimately, our investigation into these incidents — which you can read here — showed how ubiquitous hate has been in the experience of so many in America these last few years. And just how traumatic those experiences can be. And perhaps most concerning, we found that in 20 percent of the hate incidents we examined, the perpetrators invoked the name of the president or his campaign slogans. So how do you show the impact of racist rhetoric on the country? To start, HuffPost searched for incidents occurring between the launch of Trump’s campaign on June 15, 2015, and June 15, 2019. We searched LexisNexis, a database of media stories, for news articles using the phrase “go back to your country” and other variations of the phrase. ProPublica combed public records it had received from police departments around the country for incident reports containing this phrase. Lastly, we put out a call out to readers, asking them if they had ever experienced this kind of harassment. At last, we built a database to house all these stories. When the president himself used the phrase, it marked a sort of poetic bookend to our months of work, bringing attention to its pervasiveness across the country. Building The Database First things first, we had to determine what questions we would be asking of the data. In addition to the information that ProPublica provided for us — victim demographics, incident location, date of the hate incident and so on — we also wanted to know more about the perpetrators: their demographics, what “go back” phrase they used, and whether they invoked the president or his campaign slogans. We were then able to write a standardized data dictionary to make data cleaning easier later and so other reporters could be involved. After HuffPost received hundreds of reports from ProPubl
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