> Perhaps. But does coincidence even provisionally "explain" anything in
> and of itself. I can't remember which essay it wasm byt Stephen Jay
> Gould once pointed out that the price of gasoline and some astronomical
> phenomenon perfectly tracked each other. In fact I think the number of
> striking but utterly insignifican correspondences of this kind is near
> to countless.
>
So then how do you know that the coincidence of Southern violence and white unity explains anything?
SA