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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I have a theory to partly explain the fertility pattern we see: Fertility depends on both the means to support children, and the intellectual capacity to carry out family planning.
-Low income people generally rate lower in IQ and self-control, and may be more likely to fail at using birth control or fail to realize that they can't afford kids. So even if they don't have the means to support children, they end up having children anyway.
-Middle class people generally have the IQ and self control to assess their finances and control their fertility. So they end up having 1-2 kids, which is ideal if you want to follow the strategy of pouring all your money into your kid's education.
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