Published on Saturday, August 01, 2009
By Daily Breeze Staff Writer
Want to know the recipe for cooking up larger and larger hate group memberships? Take the election of a liberal president, add a governor reneging on his "no new taxes" pledge, toss in the highest unemployment in 30 years and, oh yes, make sure the new president is an African-American.
Stir thoroughly with right-wing talk radio blather about things like "heads on a stick," simmer with same-sex marriage, make sure the liberal African-American president talks up immigration reform, and you've got the perfect recipe.
In fact, the current surge in the number of hate groups and the parallel rise in their membership was completely predictable. As early as the late 1970s, when Jimmy Carter became president, organizations that track hatemongers developed what amounted to a model for predicting rises and falls in hate-group membership
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