Least Racist States 2025

	State	Overall Racial Integration Score 2025↓
	New Mexico	76.2
	Hawaii	75.8
	Arizona	72.8
	Kentucky	70.8
	Texas	70.4
	Alaska	70.3
	Delaware	70.3
	Washington	70.1
	Maryland	69.5
	Georgia	69
	West Virginia	67.7
	Virginia	66.7
	California	66
	Tennessee	65.9
	Oklahoma	65.7
	North Carolina	65.1
	New Jersey	64.2
	Colorado	63.3
	Florida	63.1
	Rhode Island	62.6
	Oregon	62.5
	Wyoming	62.2
	Idaho	61.8
	Maine	61.7
	Nevada	61.6
	Alabama	61.3
	Kansas	61.1
	Connecticut	60.7
	Vermont	60.7
	Indiana	60.2
	Missouri	59.8
	Mississippi	59.6
	Utah	59.3
	South Carolina	59.1
	Massachusetts	59
	New York	58.7
	Pennsylvania	58.1
	Arkansas	57.3
	New Hampshire	55.4
	Louisiana	55.2
	South Dakota	54.8
	Ohio	54.1
	North Dakota	53.7
	Nebraska	53.5
	Illinois	52.8
	Michigan	52.5
	Montana	52.3
	Minnesota	51.4
	Iowa	48.5
	Wisconsin	33.8
	District of Columbia	29

Definition of Racism

Racism is defined by Oxford as “prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.”

It is also called racialism. These biases create three general beliefs, such as Human beings may actually be split into different biological categories or “races”. Certain physical traits have a relationship with personality types, level of intelligence, and morality. One or multiple races are in some way dominant or superior to others.

Multiple scientific and academic bodies have concluded that the idea of “race” having any biological influence is unfounded. Modern society’s idea of “race” was invented but bears no actual weight.

History of Racism

While many countries have a long and continuing relationship with racism, the United States’ history is rooted in it. Since its development, the country’s laws, practices, beliefs, attitudes, and actions have discriminated against various groups based on either race or ethnicity.

Generally, white European Americans, specifically Anglo-Saxon Protestants, have ample access to education, voting rights, land acquisition, immigration, and criminal procedure privileges while denying those same rights to others.

Different examples of this lie in things like the genocides, massacres, and forced removal of Native Americans, African Americans being enslaved until 1865 and facing continual political and legislative barriers, Japanese Americans in internment camps from 1942 to 1945, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the forced migration of Mexicans between 1929 and 1939.

Cultural prejudices have been or still are present against almost every cultural or ethnic faction, excluding the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who mostly identify as having European descent.

According to a 2019 Pew Research Survey, about 8 out of 10 respondents say that Americans have not done enough to give Black people equal rights as white people. The majority of white, Black, and Hispanic Americans have negative views of the state of race relations in the U.S., saying that race relations are bad and may be getting worse. Additionally, about 59% of adults believe being white helps a person get ahead in our country these days.

In other countries, racism is also a persistent issue, with Qatar, Serbia, and Saudi Arabia being the most racist countries.