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 per million in 2018.

For Pennsylvania, the number of hate groups that they are tracking has remained steady at 36 from 2017 to 2019.  The population adjusted adjusted numbers has remained steady at 2.81 groups per million residents which has been consistently less than the national rate.  Among the states and the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania ranks 29 in hate groups per million.

The numbers and rates are summarized in the table below.  The District of Columbia has had the highest rate of hate groups in the US since 2016 with a slight decrease in 2019 to 26.12 groups per million.  Montana had the second highest rate at 5.61 groups/million which was down from 6.59 groups/million.  Only 14 states had an increase in the hate group rate from 2018 to 2019. 

State	Hate Groups 2019	Population 2019	Hate groups per million '19	Hate groups per million '18	Hate groups per million '17	Hate groups per million '16	Hate groups 2016	Hate Groups 2017	Hate groups 2018
US	940	328,239,523	2.86	3.12	2.93	2.84	917	954	1,020
District of Columbia	19	705,749	26.92	38.44	37.47	30.83	21	26	27
Montana	6	1,068,778	5.61	6.59	7.62	9.59	10	8	7
Tennessee	38	6,829,174	5.56	5.32	5.51	5.71	38	37	36
Arkansas	15	3,017,804	4.97	4.65	3.99	5.35	16	12	14
South Dakota	4	884,659	4.52	7.93	8.05	8.09	7	7	7
Louisiana	21	4,648,794	4.52	4.51	2.78	2.99	14	13	21
Virginia	36	8,535,519	4.22	4.58	4.37	4.64	39	37	39
Mississippi	12	2,976,149	4.03	4.35	5.03	6.02	18	15	13
Washington	30	7,614,893	3.94	3.72	3.51	2.88	21	26	28
Idaho	7	1,787,065	3.92	5.70	6.99	7.13	12	12	10
Colorado	22	5,758,736	3.82	3.86	3.75	2.89	16	21	22
Georgia	38	10,617,423	3.58	3.90	3.84	3.10	32	40	41
Oregon	15	4,217,737	3.56	3.58	4.34	2.69	11	18	15
Missouri	21	6,137,428	3.42	3.92	2.94	3.94	24	18	24
Kentucky	15	4,467,673	3.36	2.91	2.47	5.18	23	11	13
Maryland	20	6,045,680	3.31	3.48	3.14	2.99	18	19	21
South Carolina	17	5,148,714	3.30	3.34	2.79	2.42	12	14	17
Alabama	16	4,903,185	3.26	4.71	4.72	5.55	27	23	23
Vermont	2	623,989	3.21	1.60	3.21	1.60	1	2	1
Florida	67	21,477,737	3.12	3.52	3.15	3.06	63	66	75
Nebraska	6	1,934,408	3.10	4.15	4.69	2.62	5	9	8
Delaware	3	973,764	3.08	2.07	2.08	4.20	4	2	2
North Carolina	32	10,488,084	3.05	3.85	3.11	3.06	31	32	40
Indiana	20	6,732,219	2.97	3.59	4.65	3.92	26	31	24
New Hampshire	4	1,359,711	2.94	7.37	6.70	4.50	6	9	10
Nevada	9	3,080,156	2.92	3.30	3.00	1.36	4	9	10
Arizona	21	7,278,717	2.89	2.79	3.14	2.60	18	22	20
Hawaii	4	1,415,872	2.83	3.52	0.70	0.00	0	1	5
Pennsylvania	36	12,801,989	2.81	2.81	2.81	3.13	40	36	36
Alaska	2	731,545	2.73	5.42	5.41	0.00	0	4	4
Michigan	27	9,986,857	2.70	3.10	2.91	2.82	28	29	31
Ohio	31	11,689,100	2.65	3.08	2.66	3.01	35	31	36
North Dakota	2	762,062	2.62	3.95	2.65	1.32	1	2	3
Wisconsin	15	5,822,434	2.58	2.58	1.90	1.56	9	11	15
Oklahoma	10	3,956,971	2.53	2.28	2.54	1.53	6	10	9
New Jersey	21	8,882,190	2.36	2.02	1.89	1.68	15	17	18
New York	44	19,453,561	2.26	2.41	2.42	2.38	47	48	47
Connecticut	8	3,565,287	2.24	1.68	1.67	1.40	5	6	6
West Virginia	4	1,792,147	2.23	2.77	2.20	2.18	4	4	5
California	88	39,512,223	2.23	2.10	1.90	2.01	79	75	83
Massachusetts	15	6,892,503	2.18	2.03	1.46	1.76	12	10	14
Texas	63	28,995,881	2.17	2.54	2.33	1.97	55	66	73
Minnesota	12	5,639,632	2.13	2.14	2.15	1.81	10	12	12
Illinois	26	12,671,821	2.05	2.43	2.66	2.50	32	34	31
Wyoming	1	578,759	1.73	1.73	1.73	3.42	2	1	1
Utah	5	3,205,958	1.56	2.85	0.97	0.98	3	3	9
Maine	2	1,344,212	1.49	3.74	2.25	2.25	3	3	5
Kansas	3	2,913,314	1.03	4.81	1.37	2.41	7	4	14
Iowa	3	3,155,070	0.95	0.95	1.27	1.28	4	4	3
Rhode Island	1	1,059,361	0.94	1.89	2.83	0.95	1	3	2
New Mexico	1	2,096,829	0.48	0.00	0.48	0.96	2	1	0

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