Most join in prison to have protection. Prison inmates are all divided by race, on thier own accord. Some of the White inmates who join the Aryan Nation have no true ideological feelings on the group, but will go along while locked up. As soon as they are out they forget about it. Others get totally caught up in it and turn it into a lifestyle. It is more of a Southwest American gang then elsewhere in The United States. New York State prisons have almost no members of Aryan Brotherhood, not openly.