Hate Crimes Through 2024: Idaho — The State That Tried to Build a White Homeland

In the 1970s, a man named Richard Butler moved to a twenty-acre plot outside Hayden Lake, Idaho and put up a sign that read White Kindred Only. He called the compound that followed the international headquarters of the white race. It took a civil lawsuit — not a federal prosecution, but two Native American plaintiffs who were beaten by Aryan Nations guards — to bankrupt the organization in 2000. The compound was burned down in a fire department training exercise. The land is a park now.Twelve states into this series, and for the twelfth time, Anti-Black bias leads the cumulative hate crime data — 71 of 228 documented incidents in Idaho. But this state tells a second story too. Sexual Orientation is the second largest bias category here, and that number reads differently once you know that in 2022, thirty-one members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d'Alene, allegedly en route to disrupt a Pride event — twenty years after Hayden Lake and less than twenty miles away.This episode goes through the DOJ's official year-by-year numbers (a rising trend, not a decline), the full cumulative bias and offense data, three federal case examples including an attack on a transgender library employee in Boise, and the specific regional history that explains why white offenders account for roughly three-quarters of identified cases. It also sits with a number that's hard to look past — 28 documented hate crime incidents at elementary and secondary schools.The compound is gone. The data it left behind isn't.00:00 - Disclaimer01:01 - Introduction02:34 - The Thesis04:53 - Opening08:20 - The Background12:46 - The Data18:32 - Personal Thoughts23:09 - ClosingAfternoon Coffee Break with Darren Watts. Follow the show wherever you listen. Rate and review on Apple Podcasts — thirty seconds, it matters. Number 17 Cult All Time. Number 33 Business News All Time on Goodpods — because of you.