The Southern Poverty Law Center reports there are currently 784 hate groups nationwide. Those groups can be anything from Ku Klux Klan to neo-Nazis to black separatists and anti-LGBT groups. All of them are listed in the SPLC's The Year In Hate and Extremism report. But if that sounds like a large number, it's actually smaller than the year before. Actually, for the second straight year the number of such hate groups is on the decline. Despite this trend, Florida is home to 50 hate groups and comes second to California as the state with the most hate groups. Mark Potok is the editor-in-chief of the SPLC's quarterly journal, the Intelligence Report. He says the report, along with its hate group map, is meant as an educational tool for communities and community leaders. Read an edited version of our interview below. When we say the Law Center’s tracking more than 700 hate groups, what’s the criteria for a group to be considered a hate group that makes the Center’s list? Well, essentially
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