Number one state for hate groups

[Value Buy]

May surprise some people. It is not in the rust belt or deep south.
I guess when you are the number one state in population it might not be unexpected.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-is-no-1-haven-for-hate-groups-report-says/ar-AAqaX1U?li=BBnbfcL

[billisonboard]

Doesn't surprise me at all. The liberal nature of California leads it to have many different groups popping up. The conservative nature of the South leads it to have only a few groups with a long history. So the total number of groups is not significant.

What would be significant would be percentage of the total population who are members of hate groups.

[Opti]

I think there are many ways one could slice and slice the data. By number of groups, by total membership of hate groups, comparing it to population etc. California has a population of 39.25 million according to 2016 stats. Number 2 in the by number of group rankings is Florida with a population of 20.61 million.

Looking at number of groups only, California has one group per roughly 490,000 people and Florida has one group per roughly every 327,000 people.

[thyme4change]

Surprising that a huge state, with the largest number of residents and an extremely diverse population/economy would also happen to have the most {{fill in the blank}}.

Next you are going to tell me the shocking fact that Vermont has the least number of grocery stores.

[Opti]

The article on this I think was supposed to be a feel good article for some people. I'd really like to see membership numbers because its a better way to size the scope of the issue. Wyoming sounded good in the article with only two groups, until I looked up the population. 585,501 in 2016.

I think its important to look at things in context. For grins I checked one state one would expect to be bad. Alabama. I was not disappointed. 27 groups in a population of 4.863 million. That equates to a hate group per roughly every 180,000 people.

[Tennesseer]

Southern Poverty Law Center hate group map.

Just click to find more information about any group. You can sort by a specific state too.

Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Group Map

[Value Buy]

Aug 16, 2017 16:52:37 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

Surprising that a huge state, with the largest number of residents and an extremely diverse population/economy would also happen to have the most {{fill in the blank}}.

Next you are going to tell me the shocking fact that Vermont has the least number of grocery stores.

Wow reading comprehension problem there......I said that in my comment about the article.
I imagine North Dakota has fewer grocery stores than Vermont but IDNK and I will let the Haitian answer that for you, and I do not know which state has the fewest stores serving the highest numbers of customers available on a per cap basis

[Value Buy]

Aug 16, 2017 12:55:12 GMT -5 deminmaine said:

I am just dismayed by the number of people from Maine that went to that rally in VA.    Shameful. 

I guess the question is were you surprised by the number? How about a per cap basis on total population? 
On the state map you only had three (too many) hate groups. Pretty good number compared to many states.

[saveinla]

I am not surprised. I remember that we had a famous case in California where a Neo Nazi was killed by his own kid. I don't know what it is about Riverside County that causes people to be so hateful.


www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/us/11nazi.html -- details about the case


www.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/us/boy-12-found-guilty-in-killing-of-neo-nazi-father.html

[Tennesseer]

Aug 16, 2017 23:16:05 GMT -5 saveinla said:

I am not surprised. I remember that we had a famous case in California where a Neo Nazi was killed by his own kid. I don't know what it is about Riverside County that causes people to be so hateful.


www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/us/11nazi.html -- details about the case


www.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/us/boy-12-found-guilty-in-killing-of-neo-nazi-father.html

I remember the incident.

More info here: Murder of Jeff Hall

[thyme4change]

Aug 16, 2017 23:05:25 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Aug 16, 2017 16:52:37 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

Surprising that a huge state, with the largest number of residents and an extremely diverse population/economy would also happen to have the most {{fill in the blank}}.

Next you are going to tell me the shocking fact that Vermont has the least number of grocery stores.

Wow reading comprehension problem there......I said that in my comment about the article.
I imagine North Dakota has fewer grocery stores than Vermont but IDNK and I will let the Haitian answer that for you, and I do not know which state has the fewest stores serving the highest numbers of customers available on a per cap basis

North Dakota has more people and are spread out, so I would think that every small community has some type of general store that carries at least a small number of grocery items. But, yes, you may be correct. I wouldn't be surprised either way.

[Value Buy]

Aug 17, 2017 6:56:01 GMT -5 deminmaine said:

Aug 16, 2017 23:07:13 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

I guess the question is were you surprised by the number? How about a per cap basis on total population? 
On the state map you only had three (too many) hate groups. Pretty good number compared to many states.

I heard there were at least a couple dozen Mainers at that rally with the "Alt-Right".  

Not a lot.  But too many.  I don't want those people living amongst us. 

So you want some housing discrimination to occur.  
Where do you want them to live and why would that be fine for you?
Or are they to be shipped to a small island somewhere?
Maybe one of Obama's re-education Fema camps the right claimed were out there a few years ago
Yes I know you were joking but still, what do we do with them?
Telling them they have no right to speak hate does not fix a thing in the real world, nor telling them to move out of the state.