article_snippet: In just the last year, the number of KKK chapters declined by 20%, from 1,096 groups to 874," the report said.
article_snippet: More than half of the decline in hate groups was of Ku Klux Klan chapters, and many of those have apparently gone underground, ending public communications, rather than disbanding.
article_snippet: The Ku Klux Klan experienced the largest decline of all hate groups, according to the "Intelligence Report, losing more than 50% of The Ku Klux Klan chapters.
article_snippet: One of the oldest and most infamous hate groups in the United States,
article_snippet: The Ku Klux Klan took The Ku Klux Klan foothold after the Civil War, terrorizing the African-American population with intimidation and violent actions, including lynching.
article_snippet: The Ku Klux Klan's growth slowed after the establishment of Jim Crow laws in the American South, according to the SPLC.
article_snippet: The Ku Klux Klan's last resurgence came during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
article_snippet: The Ku Klux Klan was again responsible for large-scale terror against the American South's African-American population.
article_snippet: In 1990, the SPLC the SPLC started to keep track of the number of KKK chapters, which reached a high of 221 in 2010, in response to President Barack Obama's election, according to the "Intelligence Report.
article_snippet: The reason for the decline of The Ku Klux Klan is not totally clear, though the "Intelligence Report even suggests the groups may be going deeper underground.
article_snippet: The center estimates that between 5,000 and 8,000 people are Klan members in the United States.
article_snippet: the "Intelligence Report points to neo-Nazi Frazier Glenn Miller, who allegedly killed three people in Kansas who he thought were Jewish, and an incident in Las Vegas, where an anti-government couple killed two police officers before being killed two police officers, as examples of radical criminal elements acting alone.
highlights_snippet: In particular, the number of KKK chapters dropped from 163 to 72 in a year, the number of KKK chapters says .