Center lists 16 'active' hate groups in Arizona

There's so much hate in America you'd need a road map to navigate through it.

And there is such a map.

And Arizona is on it.

Of course.

We been talking more about the subject of hate since learning that the suspect in the Charleston church massacre, Dylann Roof, appeared to have been influenced by the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) a well-known racist organization. (Whose head donated lots of cash to Republican politicians, including $1,000 to Arizona's own Sen. Jeff Flake.)

The Southern Poverty Law Center says that, as of 2014, there are 784 active hate groups in the United States, and 16 of them are in Arizona.

The center defines such groups by way of "criminal acts, marches, rallies, speeches, meetings, leafleting or publishing. Websites appearing to be merely the work of a single individual, rather than the publication of a group, are not included in this list. Listing here does not imply a group advocates or engages in violence or other criminal activity."

According to the list on the center's website, Arizona's hate group range from anti-immigrant to neo-Nazi to anti-LGBT to White Nationalist to Black Separatist to a category that is achingly, depressingly vague ... general hate.

South Carolina isn't alone on this.

We've all got work to do.