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[[Image:WASPO-WCOA.png|150px|right|The WASPO logo]]
[[WASPO]] (an [[Wikipedia:acronym|acronym]] for "'''We Are Seriously Pissed Off'''") is an anti-illegal immigration group founded in [[2006]] by conservative [[WCOA]] talk show host [[Luke McCoy]]. According to McCoy, the group arose from frustrations over the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States who "seem to be destroying what I have always known as America."<ref>[http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060602/NEWS01/606020327/1036 'WASPO' is buzzword for local opponents of illegal immigration] - [[Pensacola News Journal]], June 4, 2006</ref>
[[Image:McCoyWASPOshirt.jpg|thumb|right|160px|McCoy at a WASPO "swarm" with a shirt that reads "SPEAK ENGLISH DAMMIT!"]]
McCoy intends for WASPO to grow nationwide and invites members of other communities to form their own chapter, called a "nest." Similarly, the group's meetings are called "swarms." The number of nests and other membership information is unknown.
The similarity of the organization's name to the acronym "WASP" ([[Wikipedia:White Anglo-Saxon Protestant|White Anglo-Saxon Protestant]]) has drawn accusations of a thinly-veiled white supremacist racist or [[Wikipedia:Nativism|nativist]] agenda and attracted the attention of various watchdog groups.<ref>[http://www.buildingdemocracy.org/Anti-immigrant_groups/Anti-immigrant_groups/WASPO_%28We_Are_So_Pissed_Off%29_20060911881/ BuildingDemocracy.com]</ref>.
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