October 09, 2017 - 5:34 AM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A study has found that a white nationalist rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this year drew participants from at least 35 states.
The New York-based Anti-Defamation League published its study Sunday.
The league said it was able to identify about 200 of the participants who descended on Charlottesville in August. The rally drew a massive counter-protest. Heather Heyer, a counter-protester, was killed when she was hit by a car.
The analysis found that most participants came from the eastern U.S., but some came from as far as Alaska and Washington state.
The study also found that only 7 per cent of the 200 identified participants were women, and that the Charlottesville rally drew five times as many people as any other white nationalist rally in the last decade.
News from © The Associated Press, 2017