It looks like there is already a Stata MCP, for those who might want such a thing

For that matter, right now there are ~700k people per representative and GA has ~1.3m non-citizen residents, so MTG’s own state would likely lose at least one, maybe 2 reps?

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Most people consume less than 1 hour of news per day (Pew). The result of this is that they are simply not or are ill/mis-informed, and do not have hard preferences on policy or parties. About 15-20% of voters can correctly identify positions as belonging to the left or right (Kinder and Kalmoe, 17)

I don’t know the authors at all, but I do wonder if having an American (or US-based) author with more familiarity with the local context might have helped to raise this? Of course it’s probably far more common for the shoe to be on the other foot with US researchers unfamiliar with local context

Seems like a job for @johnholbein1.bsky.social himself!

I could imagine one using the same draft design and looking at something like church attendance records over time (e.g., from the LDS member rolls) rather than the headstones only

Could be a good mechanism test, but then you're back to dealing with selection problem of enlistment... and it seems highly likely that people who voluntarily enlist would be more religious to begin with

From VA Form 40-1330, available here:

www.cem.va.gov/hmm/#:~:text...

The religious marker is optional but available at no additional charge.

One simple check: it seems like military headstones must include service details (i.e., branch, rank). Presumably one could exclude these.

I remember when this was posted on the other site, my concern was that veterans can get free tombstones (with a free religious icon), whereas non-veterans’ families would have to pay more to include a religious icon.

You can read the column for free?