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No, and maybe I could have worded that better. But that’s part of their identity and what they rally around. If you read the article you would see what I mean.

From the article “Here traditionalism and identity are fused together such that disrupting one threatens the other. Any demographic change (particularly immigration from Muslim-majority and non-White countries, exacerbated in the public perception by low birth rates) is viewed as a direct challenge to identity and tradition.”

So maybe the better word is “strategic conversatism” as per the article.