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Activity Among White Supremacists Continues to Surge

posted on June 20, 2016

USA Today’s Michael Burke writes, “Inspired by a series of hate crimes and the current election season, white supremacists have grown angrier and more energetic in 2016, according to experts.” The recent surge in white supremacist activity has been unusually long, beginning after Obama was sworn in as president in 2009. Burke writes, “The Southern Poverty Law Center released a report in February 2015 — the center’s most recent available data — revealing that domestic terrorist attacks occurred, on average, once every 34 days from April 2009 and February 2015.”

Read at USA Today