The Year in Hate

Southern Poverty Law Center by David Holthouse | Feb. 26, 2009 (Special Report)
Number of Hate Groups Tops 900

As in recent years, hate groups were animated by the national immigration debate. But two new forces also drove them in 2008: the worsening recession, and Barack Obama's successful campaign to become the nation's first black president. Officials reported that Obama had received more threats than any other presidential candidate in memory, and several white supremacists were arrested for saying they would assassinate him or allegedly plotting to do so. Full Story »

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Derek Hawkins
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 by Derek Hawkins - Mar. 1, 2009

The bottom half of this report contains the best information -- a thoroughly documented and well sourced summary of the three most active hate groups in the country. The opening paragraphs left me with one question: Is it that more hate groups are being formed, or that law enforcement is recognizing and rooting out more hate groups that already exist?

Somewhat surprisingly, it wasn’t just the usual suspects from the white supremacist underworld who sought to exploit the country’s economic turmoil and political strife.

I don’t find this very surprising, and I don’t need SPLC to tell me that it is.

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