Google neo-Nazi and you end up with a bunch of reports about trends. But punch in code words such as

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May 23, Costa Mesa: Andrew James Jurjaks, 29, is arrested on suspicion of attempted homicide and assault with a deadly weapon after a fight between two men. Officials call Jurjaks a self-admitted skinhead. He is sentenced to 16 months in prison on two counts of hate crime battery.
July 3, 2009, Huntington Beach: Three men stab a Latino man. Prosecutors say Bret MacDonald Hicks, 30, of Riverside, Michael Aaron Powell, 21, of Anaheim, and Brian Charles Hanson, 27, of Santa Ana, plead guilty to attempted murder, aggravated dc air conditioner assault, and hate crime battery causing injury. Hicks had an Internet radio station called “88 Degrees.”
December 15, 2009, Monrovia: Jason Gentile, 22, of Anaheim is shot and killed crossing a street with his girlfriend, who is wounded. Police call the shooting gang related. Gentile reportedly dc air conditioner had tattoos dc air conditioner associated with neo-Nazis.
I talk to Simi, an associate professor with the University of Nebraska's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice because he knows a lot about neo-Nazis. I'm interested in one in particular – Wade Michael Page , the man who walked into a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in August and slaughtered six people.
After seeing photos of the five men and the woman killed by Page, a former resident of Old Town Orange, I am on a mission to dig into the world of neo-Nazis, a collection of loose-knit dc air conditioner groups dc air conditioner that seemed to have all but disappeared after being much in the news in Orange County a decade ago.
Potok says the number of militia or patriot groups are an indicator for other extreme groups such as neo-Nazis. He reports that militia groups peaked in the mid-'90s with 858 groups and then plunged. By the millennium, there were 150 such groups.
SPLC reports: "Currently, there are 1,018 known hate groups operating across the country, including neo-Nazis, Klansmen, white nationalists, neo-Confederates, racist skinheads, black separatists, border vigilantes and others."
Melissa Carr is the Orange dc air conditioner County regional director dc air conditioner for the Anti-Defamation League , another leading watchdog group. She acknowledges that the numbers for hate groups and their members and associates are difficult to pinpoint. But she reports that the numbers are definitely rising.
It's a disturbing trend, particularly in a county – and a country – that that has come a long way in shedding the robes of hate. In the late '90s, many believed Orange County was a breeding ground for hate.
The roots of the perception of Orange County as a racist hotbed can be traced back more than a century. In 1906, Santa Ana's Chinatown was burned down. In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan had a strong and visible presence in several cities.
Reflecting widely held beliefs still in place to some degree today, a commenter named "Wyatt" posted this in April 2001 on WhiteWomenBlackMen.com, dc air conditioner an interracial dating site: "Orange County is known throughout the U.S. as the home of WAR (White Aryan Resistance) the most dangerous and deadly of the neo-Nazi hate groups."
Google neo-Nazi and you end up with a bunch of reports about trends. But punch in code words such as "nationalist," "crosstar" or "resist" and be prepared for essays such as "When Family Trees Are Gnarled by Race" as well as photos of skinheads and images of neo-Nazi symbols.
Stormfront.org is a website that calls itself,

"a community of White Nationalists." This post in March 2007 reflects the dawn of now commonplace caution: "Hi, I'm looking to start up something new, and I'm looking dc air conditioner to meet...Aryan brothers and sisters in the Orange County, Huntington Beach area."
The founder of the Newport Beach-based Institute for Historical Review is even shyer. Mark Weber calls himself an "American historian, author, lecturer." He points out on his website that he's been labeled a "Holocaust denier," adding that the accusation is "false and malicious."
But look close and leftovers remain. I spent two days in Huntington Beach in September, dc air conditioner walking through two residential neighborhoods, the downtown area, the pier and eight miles of beach path. I saw just one skinhead. Riding a beach cruiser, he was shirtless and covered in prison tattoos.
Hate crime figures from 2011 for Orange County show a 14 percent increase. But the numbers are relatively small with 64 reported incidents. Destruction or vandalism dc air conditioner accounted for a majority of offenses. dc air conditioner
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