The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which defines a hate group as an organization that attacks or maligns an entire class of people, tracks the number of active hate groups in the country each year.

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According to the civil rights organization's estimations, the top 10 states with the most hate groups in 2020 per capita are: Montana, Tennessee, Nebraska, Arkansas, New Hampshire, Alabama, Virginia, South Carolina, Idaho, and Nevada.

Montana has six hate groups, including two anti-Muslim groups, two white nationalist groups, a racist skinhead organization, and a chapter of the Proud Boys a self-described brotherhood of Western chauvinism that spreads anti-political correctness and anti-white guilt agenda, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Without breaking down the groups per capita, California has the most hate groups with 74. The state is followed by Florida, 68, Texas, 54, New York, 37, Pennsylvania, 36, Tennessee, 34, Virginia, 33, Georgia, 29, North Carolina, 29, and Arizona, 26.

With a population of a little more than 1 million, Montana hassix hate groups per million civilians in the state, whereas no other state hasfive per group per million civilians.

Almost 85 percent of Montanas population is white, according to the U.S. Census.

In total, there are 838 hate groups in the country. Compared to 2018, which had 1,020 active hate groups, there has been a decrease. However, groups are communicating online through encrypted platforms making it more difficult to trace.

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