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<font size="+1">10 States With the Most Hate Groups<br>
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By Thomas C. Frohlich, Michael B. Sauter and Sam Stebbins July
9, 2015 5:56 am EDT<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/07/09/10-states-with-the-most-hate-groups/">http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/07/09/10-states-with-the-most-hate-groups/</a>
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<b>3. Idaho</b><br>
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> Hate groups per 1 million:</strong> 6.2<br>
<strong>> Number of hate groups: </strong> 10 (24th fewest)<br>
<strong>> Adults with at least bachelor’s degree: </strong>
26.2% (13th smallest)<br>
<strong>> Pct. pop. identifying as white: </strong> 91.5% (5th
largest)</p>
<p>Idaho has one of the highest concentrations of hate groups in the
country. It is one of the least populous states in the country yet
it has 10 active hate groups — as many as its neighbor,
Washington, which has more than four times Idaho’s population.
Almost all of the state’s hate groups are white supremacist,
including two Aryan Nations branches, neo-Confederate group The
League of the South, and the skinhead organization Northwest
Hammerskins. The high concentration of white supremacists likely
is due in large part to Richard Butler, a founder and leader of
the Aryan Nations. Butler moved to the state in 1974 and urged
other whites sympathetic to his cause to join him in creating an
exclusively white sovereign territory. One of the reasons Butler
gave for locating in Idaho was an absence of nonwhite people. Even
today, there is relatively little diversity in the state: only
0.6% of Idaho’s population identifies as black, a smaller
proportion than any other state but Montana.</p>
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