Democracy for Vancouver

This is ugly:

After a static period, the Ku Klux Klan is growing rapidly, fueled by job losses, urban crime, gay marriage and illegal immigration from Mexico, a civil rights organization and a Klan leader say.

The trend is described as “surprising and troubling” by Deborah M. Lauter, the Anti-Defamation League’s civil rights director.

“The KKK believes the U.S. is drowning in a tide of nonwhite immigration, controlled and orchestrated by Jews, and is vigorously trying to bring this message to Americans concerned or fearful about immigration,” Lauter said.

The debate over immigration in America is “credited with re-energizing the Klan” in Michigan and 18 other states in the South, Midwest, Great Plains and Mid-Atlantic, she said. Phil Lawson, the imperial wizard of the United Northern and Southern Knights, the largest KKK group in Michigan, said membership has grown at an “astounding pace.” He said Klan membership has doubled in the past few years.

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That’s pretty disturbing.
On a related note, The Southern Poverty Law Center has a searchable database and map of hate groups in the US, with handy, weatherman-style icons.
Here’s Washington’s.
There’s a smattering of Klan activity in the the central area, a Neo-Nazi front coming in from the Sound, with isolated showers of The Christian Identity Movement.