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Our thanks to Jonathan Kelley fot his comments on an earlier draft of this paper. The data used were made available by the British SSRC Survey Archive at the University of Essex, and originally collected by Denis Balsom and Peter Madgwick. Neither the original collectors nor the Archive bear any responsibility for the analyses or interpretations presented herein. The research was initiated and completed while Mughan was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Research School of Social Sciences, The Austrialian National University.

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