Photographs by Bruce Gilden /
Magnum for Newsweek
Experts are calling it the perfect storm for white supremacist recruitment: the sinking economy, the election of Barack Obama, and the increased attention to immigrants from Mexico and elsewhere. At the same time, extremist groups are trying to enter the mainstream—and they're having some success. NEWSWEEK reporter Eve Conant and photographer Bruce Gilden visited two groups on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate group list: the Knights Party, an offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan (during a cosponsored event with the Christian Revival Center), and the Detroit-based National Socialist Movement (NSM), one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the United Sates.
