Augusta, Ga. – Nearly half of the members of the Klu Klux Klan who live in South Carolina reside in Aiken County.  In April, the white supremacist group is scheduled to hold a rally in Clearwater, S.C., but this has led to many in the community speaking out against the gathering of the organization in their neighborhood.

Curtis Fease, Augusta State University psychology and criminal justice major, discusses the presence of the KKK and other hate groups in the South in his research, When is hate allowed to prosper? The ASU senior based his research on data collected from the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-defamation League that shows the South having more hate groups, less hate crime training for police, and more people living in areas with no hate crime laws than other regions in America.

His presentation is just one of four to be featured during the Violence, hate, and aggression session of the 11th Annual Phi Kappa Phi Student Research and Fine Arts Conference on Wednesday, March 10, beginning at noon until 4:30 p.m., at ASU. Other topics in this session include Comparing southerner’s and northerner’s attitudes about violence and gun ownership, A regional analysis of policing methods in policing domestic violence, and Sticks and stones: perceptions of physical and psychological aggression.

The conference is sponsored by ASU’s chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. This event is free and the public is invited. If you are interested in pursuing this story, contact Danielle Harris, media relations specialist, in ASU’s Office of Public Relations and Publications at 706-737-1876.
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