The closest thing to a homegrown religion in America is the belief that “you’re just as good as anyone else, and nobody’s any better than you.” And no it’s not redundant. The two clauses are distinct dogmas. It’s the standard by which “justice” itself is judged.
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I think to the extent institutions need to be able to reproduce themselves via stable power structures and retention of members (by curbing independence to leave/apostasy), it's weak. It produces good feedstock for other institutions via partial rejection of the values+migration
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Scots-Irish had a weird mix of individualism and clan mentality - originally from the borderlands then a militant Presbyterian Protestant minority at odds with both Catholic peasants and English Anglican absentee landlords. Many came as indentured servants, convicts or squatters
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Well, the reason is that the Scots-Irish subculture retains elements of pre-nuclear family antecedents which we see in the predisposition for feuds, fighting and preference for martial professions. Gravitate to military as an institution in outsize career numbers. Also LE
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The military notably reproduces an honor culture and tough structure that keeps ppl from leaving at will. Which BTW Scots-Irish tended to do - ie westward expansion in America and colonization for the British Empire.
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