You believe that, 2015 and they don't miss a beat.
If there's anything that the past few years have demonstrated, it's that race, as a source of conflict and social cleavage, has not completely receded from public life.
But beneath that reality is also the ever-present truth that organized hate groups remain active inside the United States. Some Americans were reminded of this Wednesday with news that a North Carolina-based chapter of the Klu Klux Klan plans to rally outside the South Carolina state house Saturday.
The rally will, of course, take place just more than a week after state lawmakers voted to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds following and .
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The Southern Poverty Law Center, a Montgomery, Ala.,-based nonprofit, tracks and monitors the nation's hate groups. The organization has faced some criticism from conservative groups who say that the center's definition of a hate group is too broad and includes some social conservative groups that oppose things such as same-sex marriage.
But generally, a group shows up on the Southern Poverty Law Center list if the agency's research and investigative staff have found evidence of "beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics," according to the agency's Web site. The center's research involves a review of news reports, the organization's publications, materials and Web sites, as well as reports from law enforcement agencies, private citizens and the center's own field investigative work.
The reason we rely on SPLC? Few other organizations track hate groups at this level of detail, including the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
Okay. With that out of the way, this is what we know about the country's domestic hate landscape: In 2014, there were 784 hate groups active in the United States, according to the SPLC. This is where they are located:
Here's how the nation's hate map breaks down by group type.
And, here's a little primer on who and what most of these groups hate.
If there's anything that the past few years have demonstrated, it's that race, as a source of conflict and social cleavage, has not completely receded from public life.
But beneath that reality is also the ever-present truth that organized hate groups remain active inside the United States. Some Americans were reminded of this Wednesday with news that a North Carolina-based chapter of the Klu Klux Klan plans to rally outside the South Carolina state house Saturday.
The rally will, of course, take place just more than a week after state lawmakers voted to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds following and .
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The Southern Poverty Law Center, a Montgomery, Ala.,-based nonprofit, tracks and monitors the nation's hate groups. The organization has faced some criticism from conservative groups who say that the center's definition of a hate group is too broad and includes some social conservative groups that oppose things such as same-sex marriage.
But generally, a group shows up on the Southern Poverty Law Center list if the agency's research and investigative staff have found evidence of "beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics," according to the agency's Web site. The center's research involves a review of news reports, the organization's publications, materials and Web sites, as well as reports from law enforcement agencies, private citizens and the center's own field investigative work.
The reason we rely on SPLC? Few other organizations track hate groups at this level of detail, including the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
Okay. With that out of the way, this is what we know about the country's domestic hate landscape: In 2014, there were 784 hate groups active in the United States, according to the SPLC. This is where they are located:
Here's how the nation's hate map breaks down by group type.
And, here's a little primer on who and what most of these groups hate.
