id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_kdzyhbeccjdd5bpp2snoj24in4 Sean E. Mulholland Hate Fuel: On the Relationship between Local Government Policy and Hate Group Activity 2008 .pdf text/html 8244 620 60 Using county-level panel data from the United States for 2002 and 2007 and controlling for unobserved county-level time-invariant heterogeneity, I show that active hate groups are more likely to be present when the percent of households below the poverty line increases. Between 1997 and 2007, 793 US counties, or approximately 25 percent, were home to at least one active hate group.Footnote 9 Figure 2 shows the maximum number of KKK, neo-Nazi, Racist Skinheads, and Christian Identity chapters by county reported during any calendar year from 1997 to 2007. Looking at the individual hate group types, 3.8 percent of the county-year observations report the presence of at least one active KKK chapter. I then estimate the effects of economic and social stability, demographics, and county government taxation and expenditures on the probability any hate group chapter is active in a county using the following equation: ./cache/work_kdzyhbeccjdd5bpp2snoj24in4.pdf ./txt/work_kdzyhbeccjdd5bpp2snoj24in4.txt