Reply #38: k, so, it's possible that saying the cause is conservativeness (like racism often does) distracts

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from the root cause, economic in-justice.

I don't have a problem with "more likely"s.

It does raise the question as to which is determinative, thought, the poverty or the conservativeness, stuff we don't have enough information about to decide.

Poverty could provide the base potential and then other problems, such as sexual identity, a trait of in-ordinate concern to conservatives, could be the tipping factor, or . . . vice versa.