It's also worth noting that, at the time, Michigan ranked as the 9th lowest state for women's earnings as a percent of men's earnings, likely providing further support for a prevalence of the "men as breadwinners" outlook
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3. Although this seems to be changing for younger generations, most Americans have traditionally believed in their personal ability to attain the American Dream: that as long as they work hard enough, there's no limit to their possible success
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If reality regularly smacks you in the face about this real impossibility regardless of how hard you work, this might further inflame feelings about nationalism that some people have, threatening one's long-term understanding of America as a unique and special nation.
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All these factors are inter-tangled, and it's likely that white men of lower socioeconomic statuses would respond most personally to threats to nationalism like this, too.
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Militias are overtly nationalist. For the constitutionalist ones, their overt aim is to stand up for a literal interpretation of the Constitution, to carry forward the mission, as they see it, of the founding fathers, and maintain the US's "special" status.
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4. Some other authors have speculated about the role of veterans, but I found that Michigan does not have a particularly high number of veterans overall, either an absolute terms or when controlling for population size.
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5. Other people have additionally speculated about the general decline of the farming industry in the United States, but I found out evidence for that being a driving factor whatsoever, to the extent that many of my interviewees actually guffawed when I asked related questions.
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I believe that some quantitative artifacts of farming variables that some of those authors found from data sets largely relying on watch group data were likely instead picking up on some sort of variable broadly related to what we might call "rural culture."
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Many places in Michigan are not rural, but a perhaps-surprising chunk of the state was settled by both Black and White folks from the South, and many of the stereotypical values of independence and "rebellion" are easy to find.
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You only have to step over the line into Ypsilanti from Ann Arbor to hear some people talking with a genuine and heavy southern accent even still today.
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Indeed. There's a reason we natives refer to Ypsilanti as "Ypsitucky."
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