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THE YEAR <strong>IN</strong> HATE & EXTREMISM<br />
THE YEAR <strong>IN</strong> HATE & EXTREMISM<br />
ACTIVE HATE GROUPS<br />
in the United States in 2015<br />
This list of 892 active hate groups (map, p. 43), up from the 784 groups listed a year before,<br />
is based on information gathered by the Intelligence Project from hate group publications,<br />
citizen reports, law enforcement agencies, field sources, web postings and news reports.<br />
Only organizations known to be active in 2015, whether that activity included marches,<br />
rallies, speeches, meetings, leafleting, publishing literature or criminal acts, among other<br />
activities, were counted in the listing. Entities that appear to exist only in cyberspace are<br />
not included because they are likely to be individual Web publishers who like to falsely portray<br />
themselves as powerful, organized groups. This listing contains all known chapters of<br />
hate organizations. If the group has a known headquarters, it appears first in the listing of<br />
the group’s chapters and is marked with an asterisk (*).<br />
WA<br />
8<br />
OR<br />
9<br />
CA<br />
68<br />
MT<br />
ND<br />
6<br />
2 MN<br />
NH 6<br />
6<br />
VT 3<br />
SD<br />
WI<br />
ID<br />
5<br />
9<br />
8 WY<br />
MI<br />
NY<br />
2<br />
IA<br />
19<br />
44<br />
NE<br />
5<br />
5<br />
PA 40<br />
IL <strong>IN</strong> OH<br />
NV<br />
4 UT CO<br />
23 16 34<br />
3 16<br />
KS MO<br />
WV<br />
5 22<br />
KY 13 8 VA DE 5<br />
32 MD 15<br />
OK<br />
DC 18<br />
AZ NM<br />
17 AR<br />
TN 41 NC 29<br />
22<br />
18 3<br />
SC<br />
MS AL GA 22<br />
TX LA 19 22 39<br />
84 21<br />
AK<br />
0<br />
HI<br />
0<br />
FL<br />
58<br />
ME<br />
2<br />
MA<br />
10<br />
RI 3<br />
CT 2<br />
NJ 21<br />
ACTIVE HATE GROUPS<br />
BY STATE<br />
OPEN HERE<br />
detailed map inside<br />
Groups are categorized as KU KLUX KLAN, NEO-NAZI, WHITE NATIONALIST, RACIST SK<strong>IN</strong>HEAD, CHRISTIAN<br />
IDENTITY, NEO-CONFEDERATE, BLACK SEPARATIST, and GENERAL HATE. Because skinheads are migratory and<br />
often not affiliated with groups, this listing understates their numbers. Christian Identity describes a religion that<br />
is fundamentally racist and anti-Semitic. Black Separatist groups are organizations whose ideologies include tenets<br />
of racially based hatred. Neo-Confederate groups seek to revive many of the racist principles of the antebellum<br />
South. White Nationalist groups espouse white supremacy or white separatism but generally avoid anti-Semitism.<br />
General Hate groups espouse various ideologies of hatred and include the sub-categories of Anti-LGBT groups,<br />
Anti-Immigrant groups, Anti-Muslim groups, Holocaust Denial groups, Racist Music labels, Radical Traditionalist<br />
Catholic groups (which reject core Catholic teachings and espouse anti-Semitism), and Other (a variety of groups<br />
endorsing a hodge-podge of hate doctrines).<br />
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