Active U.S. Hate Groups in 2004 (Southern Poverty Law Center)

[Up2Late]

I'm not sure when it came out, but the Southern Poverty Law Center has a new down-loadable interactive map for 2004, in (.pdf) format. (The one below is just a gif) I found a few surprising things like:

Georgia (my State) has 41 Hate groups as compared to 40 in Texas and 43 in Florida.

Some smaller states have a very high concentration like:

South Carolina with 47 and New Jersey with 31 as compared to Alabama with 27 and Mississippi with 26. See more at the map and links below.

Active U.S. Hate Groups in 2004

The Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project counted 762 active hate groups in the United States in 2004.

The Center lists only organizations and their chapters known to be active during 2004.

Download PDF version of the Active U.S. Hate Groups in 2004

The SPLC website also has a interactive map is at the this link: <http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp>

[justinsb]

1. Does this include the Republican Party

and the Christian Coalition?

[Trillo]

2. I see one named Orange County Assembly of Christ

and labeled as "Christian Identity."

It's a beginning.

[Up2Late]

5. Yup, their are 28 of those, most in Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee...

...area, but their are few in the upper Mid-west too.

[Up2Late]

21. OMG!, the "White Supremacists" at OCAC a.k.a. Stormfront.org

Are talking about the Downing Street Memo! And most of them want to see * impeached too!:crazy:

[UncleSepp]

23. Christian Identity is an old white supremacist group

Their ideology is pretty strange - something about white European people being the real Jews - and they really don't have anything to do with the Christians you're probably thinking of.

[Up2Late]

3. Well Yeah, but they don't call them Repulicans they call them...

...The Christian Identity, and Other (See below), Plus all the major groups that you no doubt can guess.

The Christian Identity:

The Christian Identity religion asserts that whites, not Jews, are the true Israelites favored by God in the Bible. In most of its forms, Identity theology depicts Jews as biologically descended from Satan, while non-whites are seen as soulless "mud people" created with the other Biblical "beasts of the field." Christian Identity has its roots in a 19th-century English fad called British Israelism, which asserted that European whites were descended from the ten "lost tribes" of Israel and were thus related to Jews, who were descended from the other two Hebrew tribes mentioned in the Bible. But British Israelism, which was initially friendly to Jews, was adopted and transformed in the 20th century into a rabidly anti-Semitic creed by a number of racist preachers in the United States.

Other:

This category includes hate groups with a hodge-podge of doctrines. Some, like the National Association for the Advancement of White People, are white supremacist groups masquerading as mainstream groups with an interest in issues like black crime, busing and affirmative action. Others embrace racist forms of neo-Pagan religions like Odinism, a pre-Christian theology that is largely focused on the virtues of the tribe or race. This category also includes groups like the Westboro Baptist Church, which singles out homosexuals for hatred.

The Council of Conservative Citizens is a reincarnation of the White Citizens Councils that sprang up in the South in the 1950s and 1960s to oppose school desegregation. Like the League of the South, a neo-confederate group to which it has many links, the 15,000-member Council has tried without success to mask its white supremacist ideology to better promote a right-wing political agenda.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Damn, 11 in Ma

6 Neo-Nazi
3 Black Separatist
2 other (Volksfront and the JDL)

[Just Me]

6. Their work is so very important.

I note where the highest concentration of hate groups exists. :eyes:

[Up2Late]

8. It's kind of scary, there is a high concentration in a line from...

Massachusetts down to Virginia, almost in a straight line. I never would have thought that.

[Kraklen]

7. The Family Research Council is classified as a hate group.

Yet they still get plenty of air time on the media, imagine doing that with the KKK.

[Up2Late]

11. Where did you find them, that's James Dobson right?

Must be the Hate Crime against Sponge Bob. or Patrick

[ruggerson]

12. no, Dobson is "Focus On The Family"

[ruggerson]

9. Why is Westboro Baptist Church classified as "other"?

They don't like to use the term "Fundamentalist Christian Homophobes"?

[ruggerson]

10. And where the hell is "Focus On The Family" on this list?

The biggest hate group in Colorada. Conspicuously absent.

[Up2Late]

19. I Googled "Westboro Baptist Church" and here's you answer.

A hate group website to the max

<http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/>

[Up2Late]

13. Hey, I found Jeff Gannon!

It could be, probably not.



<http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=529>

[smartvoter]

14. Notice the groups are all racist or Christian. nt

[ruggerson]

15. Matter of fact I don't see any anti-gay groups here at all -what gives?

Gays are at the very top of all lists of hate crimes.

Shouldn't the SPLC be tracking:

The Christian Coalition
Focus on the Family
Eagle Forum
Concerned Women of America
Traditional Values Coalition


The SPLC could do gay men and women (and their straight friends and family members) an enormous amount of good by classifying these hate groups as... hate groups.

Is there a reason why they don't? (I admit, I'm not that familiar with their bylaws or how they operate)

[Up2Late]

16. Here a list they have and link, they may list them under a different name

<http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=524>

'A Mighty Army'
A dozen major groups help drive the religious right's anti-gay crusade




Inspired by the organizing successes of early anti-gay crusaders like Anita Bryant, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, fundamentalist political activists have turned the anti-gay movement into a virtual industry over the last three decades.

Below are profiles of a dozen of today's most influential anti-gay groups. Groups designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center are marked with an asterisk.


Alliance Defense Fund
American Family Association
American Vision*
Chalcedon Foundation*
Christian Action Network
Concerned Women for America
Coral Ridge Ministries/Center for Reclaiming America
Family Research Council
Family Research Institute*
Focus on the Family
Summit Ministries
Traditional Values Coalition

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[H2O Man]

17. The SPLC

has the most detailed reports on hate crimes against gay & lesbian people in the country. If you read their annual reports, you will see that these groups are identified. They do not pick and choose what hate crimes to confront. It's a great resource.

[Up2Late]

18. Kick n/t

:kick:

[Up2Late]

20. I think I found why Dana Milbank has been so Nutty lately, check out...

...this post, over at Democrats.com. Apparently, Milbank has been getting some Ugly e-mail from some RW Nut who is claiming to be coming from Democrats.com (or at least that's where Milbank thinks it coming from.

So Bob Fertik (I think that the guy who started Democrats.com) posted a very long thread of the angry e-mail, Dana Milbanks has been sending in response to Bob's requests for a simple correction.

<http://www.democrats.com/node/5071#trackbacks >

NOTE: This is a repost of a thread I posted late last night (early Morning) at this link: <http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3908819&mesg_id=3908819>

[Up2Late]

22. Kick n/t

:kick: