What follows is a list of groups that the Intelligence Project has determined to be "nativist extremist" organizations, meaning that they target individual immigrants rather than immigration policies. The groups are listed with their locations when known; locations of groups that are statewide units with no known headquarters are designated by state name alone. Groups that are also listed by the Intelligence Project as hate groups are designated by an asterisk (*).
Almost every day now, it's possible to hear supposedly authoritative "facts" about illegal immigration and immigrants bandied about by politicians, major media commentators and even allegedly objective news reporters.
Read a list documenting hate group members in the Sons of Confederate Veterans, including national leadership.
After a drastic decline in civil rights enforcement by the U.S. Justice Department over much of the past decade, President Obama's declaration during the State of the Union Address that his administration is "once again prosecuting civil rights violations" is a promising sign.
The Ku Klux Klan is a native-born American racist terrorist organization that helped overthrow Republican Reconstruction governments in the South after the Civil War and drive black people out of politics. It revived in the 20th Century as a social lodge and briefly became a nationwide political power.
The term neo-Confederacy is used to describe twentieth and twenty-first century revivals of pro-Confederate sentiment in the United States.
