article_snippet: California had more active hate groups than any other state last year, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
article_snippet: The non-profit has published an interactive 'Hate Map' showing hate group figures for all 50 states and the District of Columbia Columbia in 2014.
article_snippet: According to the findings, California has 57 such groups, followed by Florida with 50, New York with 44, New Jersey with 40, and Pennsylvania with 38.
article_snippet: Activity: the Southern Poverty Law Center has said there were 784 active hate groups in the US last year (pictured on this graphic) 1.
article_snippet: Rounding out the top five were Texas with 36 hate groups, Tennessee with 29, Georgia with 28, and Virginia and Ohio tied with 27 each.
article_snippet: Hawaii and Alaska were the only states to not have any hate groups, according to the SPLC.
article_snippet: Nationally, the SPLC the SPLC said in the SPLC 'The Year in Hate and Extremism' report, which was published online this spring, that there were a total 784 active hate groups in the US.
article_snippet: The non-profit said there were 72 Ku Klux Klan groups, 142 neo-Nazi groups, 115 White Nationalist groups, 119 racist skinhead groups, 21 Christian identity groups, 37 neo-confederate groups, 113 black separatist groups, and 165 general hate groups.
article_snippet: the SPLC said the 'annual count found that hate groups declined by 17% between 2013 and 2014, from 939 to 784 groups, bringing that number to that number lowest level since 2005.'
article_snippet: According to the SPLC, 72 Ku Klux Klan groups were active in the US last year (file photo)
highlights_snippet: California had more active hate groups than any other state last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has claimed .
  
highlights_snippet: The non-profit has published an interactive 'Hate Map' showing hate group figures for all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2014 .
  
highlights_snippet: Florida had 50 hate groups, New York had 44, New Jersey had 40, and Pennsylvania had 38, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) .