@ragingloli Indeed. Orwellian names seem all the rage these days.
@janbb I am sure the GOP will do all in their power to shut down the Southern Poverty Law Center just as they did ACORN.
@6rant6 The growth I was reporting was the growth in the total number of groups, and not in membership in any one group. Since the Nation of Islam was founded in the 1930s, they could not have contributed at all to the growth in the number of hate groups since 2,000. Still, I take your point. I looked them up, and found that their membership appears to be between 10,000 and 50,000. See the last paragraph under History.
Also, 11 of the 91 hate groups in California are Nation of Islam centers. In my book, 1 out of 9 wouldn’t qualify as “many”. As @janbb notes, the vast majority of US hate groups are white nationalist, white supremacist, anti-government radicals, etc. Here’s a link where groups are classified by ideology.
@Paradox25 Wow. Where do you live?
@jca I certainly don’t want the question to be interpreted as suggesting that hate groups in general are a dying breed. Just the opposite is true.
@woodcutter Where did you get that impression? This link I listed for @6rant6 shows that is not the case. White groups are the largest block, because we are 70% of the current population. But we certainly aren[‘t the only race on earth who know how to hate.