At least 917 active hate groups are currently operating across the country, according to a February 2017 report published by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights advocacy group. Charlottesville, Virginia, may have been the epicenter of white supremacist rhetoric and rage this weekend, but it’s certainly not the only U.S. city where hate groups have taken root. ″[President Donald] Trump’s run for office electrified the radical right, which saw in him a champion of the idea that America is fundamentally a white man’s country,” the report stated. “The hate was clearly tied directly to Trump’s victory,” the report stated. Lawmakers on both the left and right lambasted his soft response, while some white supremacist groups praised it.

Source: Huffington Post August 14, 2017 16:24 UTC