Editor's note: Michigan Radio has posted a more up-to-date version of the type and number of hate groups. You can find it here.
The Southern Poverty Law Center released a report today on hate groups in the U.S.
They say there are now more than 1,000 such groups around the country, the first time the SPLC has seen the number of "hate groups" top 1,000 since it started counting them in the 1980s.
From the SPLC press release:
Several factors fueled the growth: resentment over the changing racial demographics of the country, frustration over the lagging economy, and the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories and other demonizing propaganda aimed at minorities and the government.
A hate group is defined by the SPLC as a group that has "beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics."
The SPLC lists 35 "hate groups" in Michigan on their map.
Here are the 35 groups the SPLC lists in Michigan:
- American National Socialist Party, Neo-Nazi
- American Nazi Party, Neo-Nazi, Westland
- Aryan Nations 88, Neo-Nazi
- Battalion 14, Neo-Nazi, Jackson
- Blood and Honour America Division, Racist Skinhead
- Brotherhood of Klans Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Ku Klux Klan
- By Yahweh's Design, Christian Identity, Stevensville
- Charles Darwin Research Institute, White Nationalist, Port Huron
- Council of Conservative Citizens, White Nationalist, Caledonia
- Crew 38, Racist Skinhead, Detroit
- Firm 22, Racist Skinhead
- Gallows Tree Wotansvolk Alliance, Neo-Nazi, Grand Rapids
- Jewish Defense League, General Hate
- Nation of Islam, Black Separatist, Grand Rapids
- Nation of Islam, Black Separatist, Jackson
- Nation of Islam, Black Separatist, Detroit
- Nation of Islam, Black Separatist, Flint
- National Black Foot Soldier Network, Black Separatist, Oak Park
- National Black Foot Soldier Network, Black Separatist, Taylor
- National Black Foot Soldier Network, Black Separatist, Muskegon
- National Black Foot Soldier Network, Black Separatist, Detroit
- National Socialist Aryan Order, Neo-Nazi, Davison
- National Socialist Movement, Neo-Nazi, Wyoming
- National Socialist Movement, Neo-Nazi, Detroit
- Northern Hammerskins, Racist Skinhead, Detroit
- Social Contract Press, Anti-Immigrant, Petoskey
- United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Ku Klux Klan, Battle Creek
- United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Ku Klux Klan, Gladwin
- United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Ku Klux Klan, Fraser
- United White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Ku Klux Klan, Monroe
- United White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Ku Klux Klan, Detroit
- United White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Ku Klux Klan
- Vinlanders Michigan, Racist Skinhead
- Volksfront, Racist Skinhead, Detroit
- Yahweh's Truth, Christian Identity, Linwood
