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m-lekktor

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17. "Hate Groups Drop Nationally, Rise in Pennsylvania"

Reply to WinkyDink (Reply #13)

Wed Sep 17, 2014, 05:24 PM

Sep 2014

(news report from feb 2014 based on Southern Poverty Law Center report)

"Pennsylvania went against a national trend when the Southern Poverty Law Center released a report Tuesday demonstrating the Keystone State had more hate groups in 2013 than the previous year.

The number of hate groups, which the SPLC defines as having “beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics,” rose in Pennsylvania to 41 from 35 the year prior, according to the report.

“Pennsylvania has a very long history of neo-Nazi groups,” said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Montgomery, Ala.-based nonprofit and author of The Year in Hate and Extremism essay. “Many people describe the area between Philly and Pittsburgh as the Alabama of the north.”

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The Rude Pundit - Your State Sucks: What the Hell Is Wrong With You, Pennsylvania? [View all] meegbear Sep 2014 OP

I'm glad the shitstains who beat up the gay couple are going to get their comeuppance. And Louisiana1976 Sep 2014 #1

Yeah, Pennsylvania is the ONLY state in America where these sorts of things happen. Sheldon Cooper Sep 2014 #2

It's just one installment of his 50 part series. nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2014 #3

haha! Sheldon Cooper Sep 2014 #4

It's just surprising that it's going on outside Florida and Texas Warpy Sep 2014 #10

PA has been called "Upper Alabama" for a reason. . . DinahMoeHum Sep 2014 #5

This is the way I heard it: Aristus Sep 2014 #9

"Heard it," where? Your dinner table? I lived in Centre County for 4 years; it's not REMOTELY WinkyDink Sep 2014 #15

State College doesn't count spinbaby Sep 2014 #21

I've lived here all my 64+ years and have NEVER heard that said, and I've traveled the country, WinkyDink Sep 2014 #14

well I've lived here only 61 years and have heard it PCIntern Sep 2014 #16

Well, F JCarville and the wife he rode in on. I'm getting pretty da*n sick of PA-bashing, when we WinkyDink Sep 2014 #24

Business as usual here. Nt PCIntern Sep 2014 #25

When I lived there we called the middle part justiceischeap Sep 2014 #18

My mother called it "Pennsyltucky" Warpy Sep 2014 #26

Seems like someone recognized the restaurant.... Kalidurga Sep 2014 #6

So there aren't any homophobes or gun nuts outside Pennsylvania? KamaAina Sep 2014 #7

Has he done Florida yet? KamaAina Sep 2014 #8

He's from where, California? B2G Sep 2014 #11

And on #3, B2G Sep 2014 #12

you shoot him in the head of course... dhill926 Sep 2014 #20

Coal-cracker born and bred, love my state. We're true-Blue and union---the Keystone. Sorry, RP. Plus WinkyDink Sep 2014 #13

"Hate Groups Drop Nationally, Rise in Pennsylvania" m-lekktor Sep 2014 #17

Funny how these liberals know those alleged "many." BTW: Is CA "the Alabama of the West"? WinkyDink Sep 2014 #23

Kicked and recommended! Enthusiast Sep 2014 #19

Written from the cosmopolis of Staten Island, home of the late Eric Garner. rug Sep 2014 #22