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Vaguely interesting (Feb 4)

(1) Naturalized immigrants are more likely to vote for Democrats, but large immigrant flows make natives more likely to vote for Republicans.

(2) “[T]he drop in smoking in recent decades explains 14% of the concurrent rise in obesity.”

(3) In the U.S., people are just a lot more religious in the South than the Northeast and West coast.

(4) “When one ethnic group loses status or its members start feeling that they don’t have the status they deserve, the group can get resentful. Nationalist politicians then swoop in to capitalize on the resentment to capture political power.”

(5) In 2000, 78% of those eligible to vote in the U.S. were white; in 2016, it’s 69%.