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@Billare @JayMan471 A .61 correlation between Trump support and % of whites without high school diplomas can't be easily explained away

@crimkadid @JayMan471 What makes you think political universalism/clannishness & valuing education are unrelated?

@crimkadid @JayMan471 The quality of local education is a communal good; Mass. residents tax themselves heavily for it while Miss. declines.

@crimkadid @JayMan471 I'm not sure how "hard" the American Nations construct is, but is far less frail that analyzing Whites as one group.

@Billare @JayMan471 Times article includes white ethnicity in analysis,% of "Americans" is strong predictor of Trump support.

@Billare @JayMan471 "Americans" though not real biological category, just a proxy for Southern Whites who have been in country pre-1776

@crimkadid @JayMan471 Of course not. But it clues you these are not Germans or Scandavians, later migrants w/more consensual type politics.

@crimkadid @JayMan471 So even though "American" is semantically imprecise, using it as demonym clues they're Whites here since the Founding.