Hate Group Numbers Up By 54% Since 2000

[FreeState]

Southern Poverty Law Center

Hate Group Numbers Up By 54% Since 2000

The number of hate groups operating in the United States continued to rise in 2008 and has grown by 54 percent since 2000 — an increase fueled last year by immigration fears, a failing economy and the successful campaign of Barack Obama, according to the "Year in Hate" issue of the SPLC's Intelligence Report released today.
The SPLC identified 926 hate groups active in 2008, up more than 4 percent from the 888 groups in 2007 and far above the 602 groups documented in 2000. A list and interactive, state-by-state map of these groups can be viewed here.

As in recent years, hate groups were animated by fears of Latino immigration. This rise in hate groups has coincided with a 40 percent growth in hate crimes against Latinos between 2003 and 2007, according to FBI statistics.

Two new factors were introduced to the volatile hate movement in 2008: the faltering economy and the Obama campaign.

http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=366

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I dont know why Focus on the Family is not one... it fits their definition (defined as groups with beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people).

here are the 2008 Anti-Gay Hate Groups:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/type.jsp?DT=26


California
Anaheim - Traditional Values Coalition
Temecula - Abiding Truth Ministries
Vallecito - Chalcedon Foundation

Colorado
Colorado Springs - Family Research Institute

District of Columbia
Washington - Traditional Values Coalition

Georgia
Powder Springs - American Vision

Illinois
Carol Stream - Illinois Family Institute
Downers Grove - Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment

Kansas
Topeka - Westboro Baptist Church

Massachusetts
Springfield - The School of Christian Activism
Waltham - Mass Resistance

Washington
Seattle - Watchmen on the Walls

[sniffa]

1. Ah, Mass Resistance - a classy group

[Stellabella]

2. Not surprising.

Anytime the Repukes are in power there's more hate to go around.

[alsame]

3. Yep. The last 8 years were chock full of hate, most of it

deliberately stirred up by the GOP.

[madrchsod]

4. stormfront has as many members as we do

they also have a strong following in europe and russia...

[Kievan Rus]

5. Post-9/11 is an issue

It's a fair bet to think the post-9/11 environment has something to do with this as well.

[chollybocker]

6. A visit from the IRS would probably shut all of these groups down.

Audit their asses.

[Fearless]

7. This should be expected (sadly) to continue...

Every action has an equal but opposite reaction. We've pushed so far ahead these past 10 years or so that it's only natural that someone who is against us is going to try to push that hard back. (Legislatively speaking that push is marriage amendments btw.)