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   From: racist-liberals@splc.org   
      
   A revealing new map has made it clear where hundreds of hate   
   groups are based in the United States, showing how racist and   
   radical groups are still largely found in the South but the   
   number of groups has multiplied  dramatically since President   
   Obama too office.   
      
   The Southern Poverty Law Center has released a 'hate map' last   
   week which shows the national distribution of the various groups   
   that they could confirm.   
      
   The overall number of groups actually dropped from 1,007 in 2012   
   to 939 in 2013- the last full year with available data- but one   
   of their more troubling observations is that some of the far-   
   right leaning groups have had their ideologies picked up by   
   conservative Republican politicians.   
      
   ‘The idea that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the   
   Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security,   
   among others, is being plugged by U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-   
   Minn.). Last November, U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas)   
   suggested the president was using the Affordable Care Act as   
   cover to set up a “secret security force,”’ the report states.   
      
   ‘Earlier in 2013, U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), echoing   
   many Patriot groups, falsely claimed that a proposed United   
   Nations arms treaty “set the stage for [gun] confiscation on a   
   global scale.”’   
      
   The SPLC, which focuses much of its work combating racist   
   groups, said that the lack of clear legislative victories for   
   the Obama administration on gun control in the wake of Sandy   
   Hook and the upcoming immigration reform battle appear to have   
   effectively calmed some of the far-right groups.   
      
   ‘Those factors, along with the collapse or near-collapse of   
   several major groups for a variety of reasons, seem to have   
   taken some of the wind out of the sails of the radical right,   
   leaving the movement both weaker and somewhat smaller,’ the   
   report states.   
      
   Many states have varying bands of hate groups, but for their   
   map, the SPLC qualified them into eight categories: black   
   separatist, neo-confederate, Christian identity, racist   
   skinhead, white nationalist, neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan and general   
   hate.   
      
   There is only one state- Hawaii- that has no known hate groups   
   but a vast majority of the rest can be found below the Mason   
   Dixon line.   
      
   The 11 states that make up the area between Texas and the   
   Atlantic are home to 589 of the 939 active groups that the SPLC   
   identified- a whopping nearly 63 per cent.   
      
   Though Florida hosts 58 groups and Texas has 57, they do not   
   take the top slot this year.   
      
   California actually made the top of the list, which comes as a   
   bit of a surprise given the large immigrant population in the   
   state and the fact that unlike the South, it does not have a   
   history of slavery.   
      
   The California-based American Freedom Party that was originally   
   founded by racist skinheads group in Southern California is one   
   of the top two groups that the SPLC have flagged up as   
   particularly threatening.   
      
   They have stepped up their rhetoric against immigrants and in   
   support of 'the interests of white Americans'.   
      
   'They have for years, been running in political elections and   
   haven't done all that well. They have however, recently gathered   
   the top influential white supremacists to run their board and   
   are becoming more aggressive about winning elections,' the   
   report's author Mark Potok told Business Insider.   
      
   The other group that has been cited as a cause for concern is   
   Crew 41 which started online. They take aim at sex offenders and   
   members of a South Carolina outpost allegedly shot and stabbed a   
   middle aged couple after finding out that the husband was a   
   registered sex offender.   
      
   The trail of hate then returns to the south with Georgia, which   
   has 50 known groups.   
      
   >From there the next portion of the list is found in the   
   Northeast, with 44 groups in New Jersey, 42 in New York and 41   
   in Pennsylvania.   
      
   The geographic composition of the map also shows how the groups   
   tend to be found in or around cities. For instance, all but nine   
   of New York’s 42 hate groups are found in and around New York   
   City.   
      
   Mr Potok, said that the ideas behind the group also plays a role   
   in their location.   
      
   'Another thing to consider when analyzing this data is that   
   certain hate groups reside in particular areas. The Klan will   
   almost always be in rural areas whereas, the Black Separatists   
   are mostly in the cities,' Mr Potok told Business Insider.   
      
   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2572449/The-United-   
   States-Hatred-From-KKK-black-separatists-939-hate-groups-America-   
   mapped.html   
      
       
      
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