Anti-Latino hate crimes in California spiked up by almost 50% last year, the state’s attorney general’s office reported on Aug. 11. The increase, from 81 such crimes in 2009 to 119 in 2010, followed a decade of declines.

Faced with a country that is increasingly rejecting their beliefs and may re-elect a black man as its president, an assortment of radical-right groups are ratcheting up talk of war, according to the Winter 2011 issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report released today.