California, the nation’s most populous state, and New York had the highest number of incidents of the 20 states with the largest number of incidents, according to the report. California had 4,333 reported incidents while New York had 1,840. Washington was right behind with 556 and Texas came after with 446 incidents.
Those who identified as Chinese reported the highest number of hate incidents (43%). Those who identified as Korean were the second highest to report (16%) and Filipino were the third highest (9%).
Japanese (8%), Vietnamese (8%), and White (7%) individuals also more commonly reported incidents.
The total number of percentages exceeds 100% because individuals could self-identify with more than one ethnicity.
