Hate groups in your area???

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Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
Old news.

This is why I laugh out loud when people go on and on about how "racist and regressive" the South (and parts of the Midwest) is and how "openminded and progressive" other parts of the country are.

Well, while there are hate groups everywhere, there does seem to be a proportionately larger amount of them in the Southern states. South Carolina has more hate groups than California, even though it has, oh, just slightly over 1/10th as many people. While that certainly doesn't mean that South Carolina is more racist than California, it may indicate that racism takes a more overt (or more organized) form there.

Then again, if you look at some of the Southern states (Georgia, for example), the divide between black separatist groups and pro-Aryan groups is closer to being equal than it is in many of the non-Southern states -- take Wisconsin, for example, where only one of the ten listed groups is a black separatist group.

I don't think you can infer much about the racism of various states based on a list of hate groups.