10 States with the Most Hate Groups

NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on data provided by Southern Poverty Law Center, 24/7 Wall St. has compiled a list of the 10 states with the most hate groups.  Montana leads the nation with 9.6 known active hate groups for every 1 million state residents. Indiana rounds out the list of 10 with 3.9 hate groups per 1 million. Nationwide, there are 2.8 hate groups for every 1 million Americans.   Click HERE to read the full story.  

10 States with the Most Hate Groups

1. Montana
2. Idaho
3. Mississippi
4. Tennessee
5. Alabama
6. Arkansas
7. Kentucky
8. Virginia
9. Missouri
10. Indiana

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Methodology
To identify the states with the most hate groups, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the number of hate groups in each state for every 1 million state residents according to data provided by non-profit civil rights advocacy group Southern Poverty Law Center. To be considered for our ranking, a state needed to have at least 10 active hate groups. Rather than reviewing such factors as history of violence, SPLC identifies hate groups by ideology. These organizations claim that entire groups of human beings are evil by virtue of their class characteristics (e.g., race, religion, origin, gender and so on). For SPLC, to be considered, groups also needed to be active in the year they are listed. Activity needs to be on-the-ground activity, such as holding rallies or simply accepting memberships and selling literature. SPLC provided the names of all hate groups tracked in each state for every year between 1999 and 2016.

December unemployment rates, and the percentage of each state's nonfarm workforce employed in the manufacturing sector in each year between 2006 and 2015 came from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The incidence of hate crimes came from the FBI's 2015 Uniform Crime Report.

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