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 […]

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 […]

Yesterday, I spoke with Adam Hertzman of the Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh. We spoke of ways of combating antisemitism in the Alleghenies. Conversely, there were 4 busloads that traveled to the rally in support Israel in Washington from Pittsburgh on November 13. According to a survey by Anti Defamation League and NORC (national opinion research […]

This week in Johnstown, a panel commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Rosedale incident at the Johnstown Area Heritage Association. For those of you who do not know, during World War I there was a large influx of African Americans and other ethnic groups to work in the steel mills. In 1923, in the Rosedale […]

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 […]

I spoke with Kourtney Square who is organizing the upcoming centennial of the Rosedale incident in Johnstown. On September 7, 2023, Square, her aunt Dr. Carol Francois, Banished from Johnstown author Cody McDevitt, and local photographer Jackie Gunby will hold a panel discussion on the incident at the Johnstown Area Heritage Association. The flyer for […]

  I have written about how my book was banned by the Johnstown Area Heritage Association in much the same way that Art Spiegelman’s was banned by a school board in Tennessee.  I have also written about the message I received from Google about my blog posts on the Ukraine war.  Now it’s math textbooks 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 […]