"Were referendum voters to blame for the hate crimes..."

Referendum voters comprised 72% of the electorate. Referendum non-voters comprised 28% of the electorate. Remain voters in general would not have accepted all the bullshit we were peddled about foreigners taking our jobs and houses and cluttering up our public services, otherwise they wouldn't have voted remain. Many leave voters, on the other hand, would have swallowed those lies hook, line and sinker. Not all of them. I'm sure there were a few thinking leave voters. They weren't thinking straight, but let's cut them some slack and just say they were genuine but seriously misguided. Then there's the other 28%, who either didn't give a damn one way or the other, couldn't be arsed to vote, didn't vote because those bastard politicians are all the same anyway, or didn't know what the EU was supposed to be all about, or were opposed to referendums in principle, or simply couldn't decide. We can't speak for them. What we can say is that it's a good bet that most of the increase in hate crime came from anti-immigrant, anti-EU people, leavers in other words, and that all the rhetoric, lies and anti-immigrant hate speech we had to endure during the campaign must have had a big impact on them. If you have a better analysis (not a disingenuous one, please), then let's be having it.