Trends in Hate-Hate Group Trends

TRENDS, MAIN PAGE	HATE GROUP TRENDS	HATE GROUPS AND TRENDS BY GROUP AND BY REGION	NUMBER OF HATE GROUPS BY REGION AND BY TYPE OF GROUP
PERCENTAGE OF CHANGE IN NUMBER OF GROUPS BY REGION AND BY TYPE OF GROUP	NUMBER OF HATE GROUPS PER 1 MLLION PEOPLE BY REGION/STATE	STATE/REGION RANKINGS OF NUMBER OF HATE GROUPS PER 1 MLLION PEOPLE	SPECIFIC HATE GROUPS BROKEN DOWN

State/Region Rankings of Number of Hate Groups Per One Million People

Yearly State Ranking of the concentration of SPLC-identified
United States Hate Groups per 1,000,000 persons: 1998-2007

Region/State	Year/National Ranking
Region/State	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Northeast:
Connecticut	44	43t	44	30	19	23t	42	41	36	36
Maine	47t	39	48	51t	48	47	37	46t	31	46t
Massachusetts	30	35	43	34	36	44	33	36t	44t	40
New Hampshire	42t	38	47	48	34	36	46	38	18	20
New York	46	42	42	43	42	42	43	45	44t	41t
Rhode Island	40	45t	50t	46	46	31	44	46t	48t	48t
Vermont	29	45t	50t	51t	49t	50t	35	46t	20	38
...
Mid-Atlantic:
Delaware	36	29	16	18	49t	43	15	18	29t	32
Maryland	18	12	32	37	24	39	34	31	38	44
New Jersey	41	43t	37	23	20	13	16	22	16	14
Pennsylvania	22t	25	20	262	29	22	23	29	33t	27
Virginia	11	22	9	9	13	14	14	11	15	11
Washington, D.C.	28	20	5	6	7	3	2	1	2	1
West Virginia	6	3	25	16	14	11	10	8	8	15
...
South:
Alabama	2	1	2	3	4	8	6	9	10	8
Arkansas	4	5	4	7	3	4	4	5	4	4
Florida	16	18t	18	17	17	23t	25	24	23	25t
Georgia	15	18t	10	11	12	5	11	10	12	12
Kentucky	17	13	23	24	15	30	17	19	21	21
Louisiana	13	9	7	10	9	7	5	6	6	9
Mississippi	5	7	1	1	2	2	3	4	3	3
North Carolina	12	11	11	15	11	12	12	15	19	18t
Oklahoma	14	17	36	42	30	29	21	16	13	17
South Carolina	32	40	13	2	1	1	1	2	1	2
Tennessee	24	23	17	13	10	10	8	7	5	6
Texas	31	36	24	20	23	20	32	30	29t	23
...

Region/State	Year/National Ranking
Region/State	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Midwest/Plains:
Illinois	35	30	41	35	43	46	36	33	37	35
Indiana	7	14t	14	25	27	21	30	27	25	24
Iowa	47t	45t	49	45	45	28	47	44	43	43
Kansas	22t	34	33t	38	28	26	24	21	33t	29
Michigan	19	26	38	39	32	33	26	26	27	28
Minnesota	33	31	27t	32	38	40	40	36t	39	41t
Missouri	8	14t	12	12	16	16	13	17	14	10
Nebraska	20	4	15	21	21	18	20	23	32	37
North Dakota	47t	45t	30t	33	33	35	48t	46t	48t	39
Ohio	26	16	19	19	22	17	22	20	24	31
South Dakota	47t	28	40	40	41	50t	48t	42	48t	48t
Wisconsin	21	24	33t	28	26	32	31	35	35	34
...
West:
Alaska	47t	45t	29	5	35	37t	18	39	42	48t
Arizona	27	10	30t	36	37	34	39	25	41	25t
California	39	32	45	41	39	41	41	40	40	33
Colorado	37	41	27t	29	40	37t	27	28	22	30
Hawaii	42t	37	46	47	49t	45	48t	46t	48t	48t
Idaho	1	2	3	4	5	9	9	13	11	7
Montana	3	6	6	8	25	15	28	12	7	5
Nevada	38	45	8	14	8	19	19	14	9	13
New Mexico	45	33	26	44	44	48	48t	46t	46	45
Oregon	9	27	35	22	31	25	29	34	28	22
Utah	34	8	39	49	47	49	45	43	47	46t
Washington	10	21	21	31	18	27	38	32	26	18t
Wyoming	25	45t	22	27	6	6	7	3	17	16
...

Sources: The Southern Poverty Law Center; U.S. Census.
Notes: The higher the ranking the higher the concentration of hate groups. The letter “t” indicates a tie.

Yearly Regional Ranking of the concentration of SPLC-identified
United States Hate Groups per 1,000,000 persons: 1998-2007

Region/State	Year/National Ranking
Region/State	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Northeast:	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Mid-Atlantic:	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
South:	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Midwest/Plains:	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4
West:	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3

Sources: The Southern Poverty Law Center; U.S. Census.
Note: The higher the ranking the higher the concentration of hate groups.