The data indicate that a significant number of Idaho residents have either experienced hate crime or are concerned about their vulnerability and risk for such victimization. Members of racial and ethnic minorities were almost three times more likely to feel vulnerable to a hate crime as Whites in Idaho. Idaho has a predominately White population and has an Aryan Nation compound within its borders that produces racist propaganda. The authors note that although the survey questions that yielded data for this study provide a starting point for research on hate crimes, much more must be done before there is a fully developed instrument that can be used as a template for a thorough investigation of the incidence of hate crime at the State level. The surveys involved a randomly selected sample of 4,000 and 4,250 households in 2000 and 2001, respectively. Interviewers used the computer-assisted telephone-interviewing program to collect data. 7 tables and 75 references