Chicken’s Coming to Roost for Trump?
January 17, 2021

Chicken’s Coming to Roost for Trump?

On Jan 6 I posted my reaction to the shocking events at the U.S. Capitol that day.  I wondered what would happen to Trump’s approval ratings as his other antics have had minimal effect on them throughout his presidency.  Now it seems like I have an answer now that there are three days left for […]

April 3, 2020

Hate group activity down in the US but the Same in Pennsylvania

In the midst of the hoopla over Coronavirus, the Southern Poverty Law Center has come out with its annual hate map.  In 2019, they were tracking 940 hate groups which was down from 1,020 in 2018.  Adjusting for the US population, there were 2.86 groups per million in 2019 which was down from 3.12 groups […]

State Hate Group Rate Still Predicts Trump State Approval Rating
March 7, 2019

State Hate Group Rate Still Predicts Trump State Approval Rating

Morning Consult Map of Trump Net Approval Ratings  Last week The Southern Poverty Law Center came out with its annual hate group estimates for each state.  I commented on how they produced a hate map with the numbers.  You can see how Trump’s net approval rating in the map above corresponds the the population adjusted […]

February 24, 2019

New Hate Group Estimates: Has the SPLC adopted my method?

The Southern Poverty Law Center has published it’s annual hate group estimates for each state in the US.  They tracked 1,020 groups last year which is the most they’ve ever tracked.  The next highest number they tracked was 1,018 in 2011.  Adjusting these national numbers for population gives 3.27 groups per million in 2011 and […]

May 15, 2018

Hate Crimes in Pennsylvania Under Reported (and other states as well)

A week after I posted my Op Ed in the Tribune Democrat on hate groups in Pennsylvania it reprinted an op ed from Pennlive.com on how hate crimes in the state are under reported.  There were a total of 61 hate crimes reported to the FBI in 2016.  Adjusting for population the state ranks 47th.  The […]

Evaluating a New Hate Group Measure
March 20, 2018

Evaluating a New Hate Group Measure

The Southern Poverty Law Center has come out with it’s annual census of hate groups which shows .  Last week I wrote extensively on the national hate group numbers at The Hill Talk.  This week I will l look at a new way of measuring the reach of these groups. The hate map for Pennssylvania […]

February 18, 2017

2016 Hate Group Concentration Predicts Trump % of the Vote

This week the Southern Poverty Law Center came out with it’s hate map for 2016.  They found an increase in the total number of hate groups in the US from 892 in 2015 to 917 in 2016.  For the last three years I have been adjusting the hate group numbers for the population in the […]