Rise of Hate Groups
The SPLC has documented an explosive rise in the number of hate groups since the turn of the century, driven in part by anger over Latino immigration and demographic projections showing that whites will no longer hold majority status in the country by around 2040. As the chart shows, this rise accelerated in 2009, the year President Obama took office, before leveling off and beginning to decline in 2011. Read about our most recent count in 2015, when the total number of groups increased for the first time in three years (download a PDF of the HateMap).
14%
Increase in total number of hate groups up from 2014.
998
Total number of antigovernment 'patriot' groups in 2015.
190
Total number of Ku Klux Klan groups in 2015
42%
Increase in total number of anti-Muslim hate groups up from 2014.