Surprised by the anti-black map; MD is worse than both TX and LA, NV is just as bad as LA, and WV is by far the worst.
The article confirms by suspicions that most of it is not racial heat in Maryland; people just likely tweeted lyrics or whatever else that neutrally use the words in question or better yet, the poetry of Doyen "GrownMan" (née "Aggregate") Herndon.
That should also tell you just how bad it is in West Virginia considering how frequently you see it in neutral contexts. (Why Abe Lincoln!? Why did you create that place?!)