Hate Group Numbers Rise

(CBS) Two new reports document a significant rise in the number of hate groups in the U.S.

One of the reports is from the Department of Homeland Security.

The other, from an organization that has tracked extremist groups for the past 40 years, found a 50 percent rise in the number of such groups since 2000, to 926 today.

The Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report attributes the increase in part to the election of President Obama as the nation's first black president, and to a backlash against Latinos. Another factor: the weak economy.

The SPLC report says hate group activity in the U.S. was "disturbing and widespread" last year.

SPLC founder Morris Dees says the DHS report should "be taken very seriously. What we found in our Intelligence Project we've run for a number of years here is the political climate, the election of (Mr.) Obama, the immigration issues that have faced the united states over the last five to ten years, and now, especially, the economy, are almost causing a resurgence of what we saw in the days of (Oklahoma City federal courthouse bomber) Timothy McVeigh -- almost a militia movement that's being reborn in the United States." - CBS News Story

The report from the DHS was a blast at the Right Wing Mentality which is a Political Attack instead of looking at the true meaning of what these reports are saying.

There is a tremendous growth of groups that are becoming more and more anti-American. In a time when the Government has basically said that they will go and do whatever they want in complete disregard to what the American people want, you will get a rise in Anti-Government sentiment.

This is the Challenge of Single Party Rule. Obama and the Democrats like to tout the "We Won" idea. What they must remember is that there is a huge sector that doesn't fell that same sentiment. We as a Country have been split almost 50-50 over the past decade and that leaves a huge group that feel unrepresented by their Government. It isn't the Right Wing or the Left Wing, it is a group of Americans who feel that their Government is not Representing them. The way that Washington is acting, this will get much worse before it gets better.