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This Is the Number of Active Hate Groups in Minnesota

imageForEntry19 cGmDomestic terrorism and violent extremism are growing threats in the United States. The FBI had 9,049 open domestic terrorism cases in fiscal 2021, up 357% from the number of open domestic terrorism cases in fiscal 2013. Many of the most violent incidents of domestic terrorism in the U.S. today are carried out by individuals who have been radicalized by racist, homophobic, ethnocentric, or anti-government ideologies – ideologies widely propagated by extremist hate groups.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, there were 1,224 active hate and anti-government groups in the U.S. in 2022. These groups include those with distinct chapters in cities across the country, such as the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the Ku Klux Klan, and ACT for America. While specific views vary between these and other groups, they are generally all galvanized by curtailing government power or hatred toward individuals of certain races, religions, ethnicities, or sexual orientations.

The SPLC identified 19 active hate and anti-government groups in Minnesota in 2022. Adjusting for population, this comes out to about 3.3 extremist groups for every million people, the 17th lowest concentration among states.

The number of hate groups operating in the state climbed by 111.1% since 2021. Active extremist groups in Minnesota today include 11 anti-government groups and two neo-Völkisch groups.

All data in this story is from the SPLC report The Year in Hate & Extremism 2022.

Rank State Extremist groups per 1M people, 2022 Total number of extremist groups, 2022 1-yr. change in active extremist groups (%)
1 Wyoming 15.5 9 350
2 Idaho 11.0 21 250
3 Montana 10.9 12 200
4 New Hampshire 10.8 15 150
5 North Dakota 10.3 8 300
6 South Dakota 8.9 8 100
7 Delaware 7.0 7 75
8 Maine 6.6 9 125
9 Rhode Island 6.4 7 133.3
10 Nebraska 6.1 12 33.3
11 South Carolina 5.8 30 76.5
12 Oregon 5.7 24 140
13 Pennsylvania 5.6 72 140
15 Alaska 5.5 4 300
14 Hawaii 5.5 8 100
16 Utah 5.4 18 800
17 Arizona 5.4 39 77.3
19 Arkansas 5.3 16 77.8
18 Colorado 5.3 31 72.2
21 Virginia 5.0 43 115
20 West Virginia 5.0 9 50
23 Ohio 4.7 55 175
22 Tennessee 4.7 33 17.9
24 Vermont 4.6 3 50
25 Indiana 4.3 29 107.1
28 Maryland 4.1 25 127.3
26 Florida 4.1 89 67.9
27 North Carolina 4.1 43 53.6
30 Iowa 3.8 12 500
29 Nevada 3.8 12 33.3
31 Washington 3.7 29 52.6
33 Wisconsin 3.6 21 75
32 Missouri 3.6 22 29.4
34 Minnesota 3.3 19 111.1
35 Oklahoma 3.3 13 44.4
36 Connecticut 3.1 11 57.1
37 Michigan 2.9 29 61.1
38 Illinois 2.8 35 52.2
39 New York 2.7 53 51.4
40 California 2.6 103 58.5
41 Alabama 2.6 13 0
45 New Mexico 2.4 5 400
43 New Jersey 2.4 22 83.3
42 Texas 2.4 72 38.5
44 Mississippi 2.4 7 -12.5
46 Georgia 2.2 24 0
47 Kansas 2.0 6 50
48 Kentucky 2.0 9 0
49 Massachusetts 1.6 11 -21.4
50 Louisiana 1.5 7 -53.3
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