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Mark Potok, director of the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center, said the final weeks of the US election campaign and its immediate aftermath had witnessed “hundreds and hundreds” of hate-related incidents.
“Since the closing weeks of the campaign, we’ve seen a real and significant, white backlash break out and I think it’s getting worse,” Potok told AFP.
Brian Levin, a professor from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino also said the rise in hate crimes appeared to fit into part of a longer term trend.
Levin also said there was evidence of a surge in traffic on white supremacist Internet websites such as StormFront, whose server crashed on the day after the November 4 election due to the uptick in activity.
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s chief Potok said the increase in racist crimes could be attributable to a “perfect storm” of conditions.
The increase in non-white immigration, the recent estimate by the US Census Bureau that whites would lose their majority status by 2040 and rising unemployment all helped create a climate favorable for hate groups.
“Add to all of that the idea of a black man in the White House and you have a very significant number of whites who feel as if they’ve lost everything, that the country built by their forefathers has somehow been stolen from them,” Potok said. “I think we’re seeing an identity crisis on the parts of whites.”
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