New data, consisting of information from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and American Communities Project, is trying to determine exactly where hate groups are more likely to exist in the United States.
The analysis concluded that the two types of counties (both of which exist primarily in but are not limited to the South) most likely to have hate groups are Evangelical Hubs and the African American South. Nationally, for every SPLC hate group, there are an estimated 405,000 Americans. In Evangelical Hubs, there are 208,000 and in the African American South there are 223,000.
These counties have two specific factors in common, which may also explain why hate groups thrive there: low income and high diversity.
