THE YEAR IN HATE & EXTREMISM
THE YEAR IN HATE & EXTREMISM
ACTIVE HATE GROUPS
in the United States in 2015
This list of 892 active hate groups (map, p. 43), up from the 784 groups listed a year before,
is based on information gathered by the Intelligence Project from hate group publications,
citizen reports, law enforcement agencies, field sources, web postings and news reports.
Only organizations known to be active in 2015, whether that activity included marches,
rallies, speeches, meetings, leafleting, publishing literature or criminal acts, among other
activities, were counted in the listing. Entities that appear to exist only in cyberspace are
not included because they are likely to be individual Web publishers who like to falsely portray themselves as powerful, organized groups. This listing contains all known chapters of
hate organizations. If the group has a known headquarters, it appears first in the listing of
the group’s chapters and is marked with an asterisk (*).
WA
8
ND
2
MT
6
ID
8
OR
9
NV
4
MN
6
SD
5
WY
2
UT
3
CO
16
AZ
18
NM
3
CA
68
KS
5
OK
17
TX
84
AK
0
WI
9
IA
5
NE
5
NH 6
ME
VT 3
2
MO
22
AR
22
LA
21
MI
19
NY
44
MA
10
PA 40
RI 3
OH
IL
IN
CT 2
34
23 16
NJ 21
WV
DE 5
VA
8
KY 13
MD 15
32
DC 18
NC 29
TN 41
MS
19
AL
22
GA
39
SC
22
FL
58
ACTIVE HATE GROUPS
BY STATE
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Groups are categorized as KU KLUX KLAN, NEO-NAZI, WHITE NATIONALIST, RACIST SKINHEAD, CHRISTIAN
IDENTITY, NEO-CONFEDERATE, BLACK SEPARATIST, and GENERAL HATE. Because skinheads are migratory and
often not affiliated with groups, this listing understates their numbers. Christian Identity describes a religion that
is fundamentally racist and anti-Semitic. Black Separatist groups are organizations whose ideologies include tenets
of racially based hatred. Neo-Confederate groups seek to revive many of the racist principles of the antebellum
South. White Nationalist groups espouse white supremacy or white separatism but generally avoid anti-Semitism.