The Importance Of Hate Groups In The States

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Not to mention, there is a large variety of hate groups throughout the states. There about 18 known hate groups, with a likelihood of more in the making or hiding. According to Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and monitors the activities of domestic hate groups and other extremists, these hate groups include the Alternative Right, Anti-immigrant, Anti-LGBT, Anti-Muslim, antigovernment movement, Black separatists, Christian Identity, General Hate, Holocaust Denial, Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Confederate, Neo-Nazi, Phineas Priesthood, Racist Music, Racist Skinhead, Radical Traditional Catholicism, Sovereign Citizens Movement, and White Nationalist and there are about 892 active hate

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