A hate group is a group that hates a specific group of people. For example, a hate group might hate everyone who belongs to a different ethnic group, religion, sex, and/or sexual orientation.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, as of 2015, there were 892 hate groups currently operating in the United States. Hate groups exist in every state.^[1]

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center:^[1]

• In 1999, there were 457 hate groups operating in the United States.
• The number of hate groups in the U.S. grew every year until 2011. At that point, there were 1018 hate groups operating in the United States.
• After 2011, the number of hate groups in the U.S. decreased for three straight years, but in 2015 it increased by 14%.

There are many different types of hate groups. Of the 892 hate groups currently operating in the U.S.:^[1]

• 190 are Ku Klux Klan
• 184 are "General Hate" groups - including:
  • Anti-Muslim groups
    • There has been a 42% increase in anti-Muslim hate groups since 2014
  • Anti-LGBT groups
  • Anti-Immigrant groups
  • Groups that say the Holocaust did not happen
  • Other groups that say hateful things
  • Racist music
  • Radical traditionalist Catholic groups
• 180 are Black Separatist
• 95 are White Nationalist
• 95 are Racist Skinheads
• 94 are Neo-Nazi
• 35 are Neo-Confederate
• 19 are Christian Identity groups

According to the Anti-Defamation League, as of 2015, 21,000,000 people in the United States admitted to having anti-Semitic attitudes.^[2] For example, 31% of people admitted that they think "Jews are more loyal to Israel than to [this country/the countries they live in].^[2]