"Rebranding Hate"

Hate groups are enjoying a surge in membership, what with the economy in the toilet and a black man in the White House. This revolting Newsweek article includes many chilling paragraphs. Here's one:

Some civil-rights activists are more worried about the racists they can't see than the showboaters trying to draw attention to themselves. "We're not going back to the '50s," says Mark Potok of the SPLC. "The country has moved forward in remarkable ways. But with that breakthrough comes something of a backlash." It's the loners, he says, who are most worrisome: "The lone-wolf idea is much scarier than the big-plot idea. Big plots don't succeed because these guys cannot keep their mouths shut."