Your information is known to me in general, but thank you for the extent of the detail.
It makes me wonder: recent studies have shown that a there is a genetic component for a person’s tendency towards liberal thinking. Might it be that this unseen force explains some of this otherwise inexplicable thinking and behavior in this group (and others)? Other explanations don’t do the job for me.
Of course, for a trait like this to be bred into a people, it would have to offer some survival advantage, and I don’t see much of one historically for these people.
Bullcrap.