Southern Poverty Law Center’s new Hate Map…

The number of hate groups in America grew by 4 percent last year, a bump that’s a result of racially-charged political rhetoric and organized reaction to that rhetoric from African Americans and others, the Southern Poverty Law Center said Wednesday.
In its annual Hate and Extremism Report, the Alabama-based nonprofit counted 954 groups nationally — including 75 in California — that it said spout racism, bigotry and other forms of speech that demonizes everybody from Muslims and Jews to women, gays and immigrants.


 Source :  mercurynews