Original sentence: , a charge the League denies.Critics, most notably the controversial left-wing organization.The League of the South has been described as racist by the Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC), a controversial left-wing organization
Edited sentence: " In 1998, the Southern Poverty Law Center estimated the League's membership at 4,000; in 2000, it had grown to 9,000 members according to the SPLC." The SPLC claims that some prominent members of the League are members of racist and neo-Nazi groups., can be manufactured easily.According to the SPLC report, Jack Kershaw, a board member, has said "somebody needs to say a good word for slavery.According to the SPLC, J.Critics, most notably the controversial left-wing organizationSouthern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC"), argue that it seeks to create a theocracy.For instance, the SPLC report claims that the North Carolina branch of the League has Steven Barry, who is a member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, as an "advisor".In the same SPLC report, Hill is quoted as opposing "universal 'human rights" , calling it an "evil genie", impossible to put back in the bottle, since "rights for women, racial and ethnic minorities, homosexuals, pedophiles, etc.It has attracted some controversy because of its alleged racism, and its leadership of the so-called Neo-Confederate movement.Michael Hill, the League's president, has called slavery a "God-ordained institution"  and opposes interracial marriage.Since then, again according to the SPLC, its membership has been in decline, and high-profile figures like Fleming and McWhiney have left the League.The League of the South has been described as racist, a charge the League denies.The latter's book Cracker Culture, has been called "a neo-confederate Bible.Where in the world are the Negroes better off today than in America