Thought of a phrase: alt confidence. The generally higher sense of self certainty that comes with adopting fringe views.
I think it’s a selection effect. People who can’t tolerate high uncertainty centrifuge farther out to edge.
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Yeah I agree, am mostly thinking post LBJ.
But philosophically there’s been continuous opening up. Even getting to an expansive definition of ‘white’ to include Irish/Italian took a while. And Jackson gave non-propertied whites the vote only in 1830s.
That trendline has flipped
