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Jews choosing to live among other Jews would be an endogenous factor, sure. But it's a factor that is itself explained by the phenomenon of Group Identity and ideology directing breeding behavior. And even if you adjusted that for certain communities the level of endogamy among Jews is impossible to explain by chance. I know you bemoan it is even as low as it is (!), but it's certainly not a dead-end issue.
It’s quite high in a general sense and has risen rapidly. In addition I don’t think you can discount that it’s likely gentile white subgroups still marry endogamously at much higher than random rates, for religious and/or regional and local demographic reasons. Irish and Italian in-marriage was still quite high until the latter third of the 20th century, particularly in urban areas on the East Coast.
If you take a modal PMC white (well, you know what I mean) Jewish person in their late 20s trying to find a spouse in Manhattan, for example, it’s likely that even someone with no serious ethnic or religious preference would find a substantial proportion of their dating pool was Jewish or half-Jewish at this point. Most American Jews are substantially more likely to intermarry than Muslim, black, Mormon and many other American tribes. To me, this doesn’t reflect a very strong ethnic presence; British Pakistanis manage to have 95%+ endogamy despite making up only a few percent of the population, so it’s not as if it’s actually hard for truly ethnocentric groups to restrict out-marriage. High rates of Jewish intermarriage therefore likely reflect a degree of actual rejection of hardline ethnic chauvinism among a substantial proportion of the American Jewish population, since a substantial proportion of those unions will result in children who aren’t Jewish according to Halacha and will have little Jewish identity.
I think you misunderstood my point, I do think that gentile white subgroups are naturally endogamous and that was my point. It's not a "dead-end" when it's something they seem inclined to do anyway, even with the apparatus of propaganda being optimized to try to discredit the natural tendencies that are associated with the pattern of behavior.
My point was that I don't think promoting endogamy among white people is at all a dead end; even after decades of promoting exogamy White Women still prefer White Men. It's certainly not a dead end.
The disparity between "secular" and Orthodox Jews only illustrates the importance of ideology and identity to tuning the level of endogamy. How is it a dead end when the experience of Jews shows how important identity is to the practice?
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