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KulakRevolt  10mo ago (anarchonomicon.substack.com)   2101 thread views

American Conservatism and Fertility Cult-ure

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A theory im playing around with that the apparent Vulgarity and crudeness of American country/redneck/Conservative culture is actually an adaptive mode of Counter signaling akin to Orthodox Jewish or Amish cultural adaptations to maintain high birth rates and internal cultural coherence in the face of the homogenizing anti-natalist effects of Mainstream Global-liberal-urban monoculture...

American redneck/conservative culture, and Orthodox Jews especially are unique in being the only wealthy cultures to maintain high birth rates beyond the global middle-income, and that both adapted and are defined by their hostile largely hostile relationship with the the most advanced strains of the global mono-culture found in Urban America and the Urbanized anglo-world.

Nations as far afield as Hungary, China, and Iran are trying to save themselves from declining birthrates... Should they try to import American Country culture?

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American redneck/conservative culture, and Orthodox Jews especially are unique in being the only wealthy cultures to maintain high birth rates beyond the global middle-income, and that both adapted and are defined by their hostile largely hostile relationship with the the most advanced strains of the global mono-culture found in Urban America and the Urbanized anglo-world.

hmm..Orthodox Jews are among the poorest groups in the US. Same for Southern whites. high birthrates does track lower SES overall.

You may be thinking about super sayiin ultra orthodox/hasidic/haredi Jews, who are a minority of orthodox Jews (I think), who are a minority of Jews (I think). Orthodox Jews are wealthy:

Amongst Jews, in 2016, Modern Orthodox Jews had a median household income of $158,000, while Open Orthodoxy Jews had a median household income of $185,000 (compared to the American median household income of $59,000 in 2016)

a minority of orthodox Jews (I think)

Wikipedia claims this is currently true in Israel, but not in the US.

who are a minority of Jews (I think).

This seems to be true for the largest populations (for now; extrapolating demographic and conversion rates to the future is fraught).

Orthodox Jews are wealthy:

The modernist branches, at least. The survey sourced there only interviewed such branches (and even their most conservative "right centrist" subgroup was averaging $140K!).

But ... surveys of Haredi also show household incomes averaging $136K!? There's a much wider discrepancy from their not-ultra Orthodox kin when considering wealth rather than income, and there's some speculation about ultra ultra-Orthodox who couldn't even be reached to survey, but even if so, at the point where we need to divide down to a subgroup of a subgroup of a subgroup of a subgroup of Americans how broad a conclusion can we draw?

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