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Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Map
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According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the number of active hate groups across the Northwest dropped in 2013.
The center released its annual report on Tuesday, showing the number of hate groups in Washington dropped from 16 in 2012 to 10 in2013. In Idaho the number dropped from 17 to nine. In Montana the number dropped from 12 to eight.
The number of hate groups in Oregon stayed the same at nine.
Nationally, the number of active hate groups dropped from 1,007 in 2012 to 939 in 2013.
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
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