My goodness, billbears, have I managed to get on a nerve here? Why else would you be so definsive about the Klan and be spouting nonsense like 'all the HQs are located in northern states'? OK, here's the link. Yeah, it's from the tolerance.org website, an SPLC offshoot. And yeah, they may play fast and loose sometimes with the 'hate group' designation. But I doubt that you will disagree with their classification of the Klan as a hate group. And they have identified 109 separate chapters, over 2/3rds of which are located in the old confederacy. And almost none of which are headquartered up North, billbears. Now if you have any evidence contradicting the stuff on the website then by all means trot it out. I would love to see it.