Recently, the Southern Poverty Law Center has published its new hate map for 2025. Last year they tracked 1,263 groups nationwide. The year before they tracked 1,371 groups and 1,430 in 2023. There was a 12% decrease between 2023 and 2025 in the raw number of groups. When adjusting for population there were 3.81 groups […]

With the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk in still in the news I thought I would take a look at his organization Turning Point USA in the Alleghenies. According to their map of chapters there are 27 chapters in the region. Of these, 18 are on college campuses, 5 are in high schools and 4 […]

Annually, the Southern Poverty Law Center publishes its year in hate report. This includes their list of hate groups in each state that they are following. Nationally the number that they followed in 2024 is 1,371. This is down from 1,430 in 2023. Adjusting these numbers for population they were following 4.27 groups per million […]

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has come out with its annual update to its Hate Map for 2023. It lists the locations of all of the hate groups and anti-government that they are tracking. In 2022, they were tracking 1,225 groups. In 2023, they were tracking 1,430, a 17% increase. For Pennsylvania, the number […]

I finally heard back from the Southern Poverty Law Center on the Evergreen white nationalist group in Bedford, PA. The Evergreen group is totally different from the local musical group, the Evergreens. They sent me the following information: Evergreen is a group of white nationalist women that was founded in 2021 by Allyson McKevitt in […]

I was going to post on the low life expectancy for African Americans in Cambria County. However most of the numbers from County Health rankings have hardly changed from last year due to an issue with the census. Just reciting numbers from last year is redundant. It is cited in the related posts below. I […]

Last week I posted on the rise in hate groups in Pennsylvania from 30 to 72 as listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). This week I will look at the changes in the categories of groups from last year to this year. Anti-government groups are a majority of hate groups in PA. Last […]

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) just released its annual list of hate groups for the U.S. for 2022. Nationwide, they followed 1,225 groups last year. This is up from 733 last year and is the highest that they have ever tracked. Pennsylvania had 72 hate groups in 2022 which is up from 30 in […]

The County Health Rankings number will not be released until April 27.  I do have new numbers from the Southern Poverty Law Center for hate groups for each state in the U.S. The current map is displayed above.  They are currently tracking 733 groups in the U.S. The graph at the left shows that the number […]

The Southern Poverty Law Center has come out with it’s 2020 hate map showing the concentration of hate groups in the US as seen above.  The total number of groups that they follow nationally went down in 2020 to 838 from 940 in 2019.  The high point for hate groups during the Trump years was […]