Hate groups in the United States

A hate group is a group that hates a specific group of people.  For example, a hate group might hate everyone who belongs to a different ethnic group, religion, sex, and/or sexual orientation.

Statistics
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, as of 2015, there were 892 hate groups currently operating in the United States.  Hate groups exist in every state.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center:
 In 1999, there were 457 hate groups operating in the United States.  
 The number of hate groups in the U.S. grew every year until 2011.  At that point, there were 1018 hate groups operating in the United States.
 After 2011, the number of hate groups in the U.S. decreased for three straight years, but in 2015 it increased by 14%.

 Types of hate groups 
There are many different types of hate groups.  Of the 892 hate groups currently operating in the U.S.:
 190 are Ku Klux Klan
 184 are "General Hate" groups - including:
 Anti-Muslim groups
 There has been a 42% increase in anti-Muslim hate groups since 2014
 Anti-LGBT groups
 Anti-Immigrant groups
 Groups that say the Holocaust did not happen
 Other groups that say hateful things
 Racist music
 Radical traditionalist Catholic groups
 180 are Black Separatist
 95 are White Nationalist
 95 are Racist Skinheads
 94 are Neo-Nazi
 35 are Neo-Confederate
 19 are Christian Identity groups

According to the Anti-Defamation League, as of 2015, 21,000,000 people in the United States admitted to having anti-Semitic attitudes.  For example, 31% of people admitted that they think "Jews are more loyal to Israel than to [this country/the countries they live in].

References

Category:Hatred
Category:Organizations based in the United States