@crimkadid @JayMan471 The quality of local education is a communal good; Mass. residents tax themselves heavily for it while Miss. declines.
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@crimkadid@JayMan471 I'm not sure how "hard" the American Nations construct is, but is far less frail that analyzing Whites as one group.1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes -
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@Billare@JayMan471 Times article includes white ethnicity in analysis,% of "Americans" is strong predictor of Trump support.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Billare@JayMan471 "Americans" though not real biological category, just a proxy for Southern Whites who have been in country pre-17761 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@crimkadid@JayMan471 Of course not. But it clues you these are not Germans or Scandavians, later migrants w/more consensual type politics.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@crimkadid@JayMan471 So even though "American" is semantically imprecise, using it as demonym clues they're Whites here since the Founding.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Billare@JayMan471 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.jpg … For whatever reason, only Southerners identify as "American".2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@crimkadid Not only. Puritan-derived Americans identify as such here in New England. Also some "Americans" are Black.@Billare1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@JayMan471@Billare In the 2000 census 21.5 percent of Maine-ers identified as English and 9.3 percent as American.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@crimkadid Self-reported ethnicity is unreliable. See previous link.@Billare1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@JayMan471 @Billare Point is self-described "Americans" are overwhelmingly white Southerners, which is what NYTimes article was catching
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