11. California
In her book Suburban Warriors, Lisa McGirr describes the rise of the new right, which she argues germinated in Orange County. She acknowledges that it’s odd that Southern California would share the same politics as the southern states, because SoCal doesn’t have the same history of racial tensions. Why would there be so many hate groups in a historically less “racialized” state? Well for one, there are no KKK chapters in California. But there are six neo-Nazi groups and six white nationalist groups, for a total of twelve active hate groups in the sunny, west-coast state. It appears racism in the States is not only anti-Black.
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