re: #184 Killgore Trout

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Goodbye, bowling club

I don’t see anything on that page that proves or even attempts to explain a correlation between Americans’ impulse to move away from group membership and towards increased partisanship.

As a matter of fact, now that I think of it:

less willingness to join groups = increased tribalism

Seems highly unlikely logically speaking, but I’m not a social scientist, so what do I know? The entire 2004 report can be downloaded as a PDF from here, but… meh, I’m not really interested in spending a portion of my Sunday on that.