U.S. Hate Groups Rose 30 Percent In Recent Years, Watchdog Group Reports
The Southern Poverty Law Center says many groups are driven by white supremacist ideology and the "hysteria over losing a white-majority nation." Critics accuse the group of overblowing the threat.
For the fourth year in a row, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks hate groups, that hate and domestic extremism are rising in an unabated trend. The center found a 30 percent increase in U.S. hate groups over the past four years and a 7 percent increase in hate groups in 2018 alone, according to the center's annual "Yearreport. The group designated 1,020 organizations as hate groups in 2018, a high of at least 20 years.
