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I think you will find interesting Steve Sailer's article on cousin marriage.
The short version of it is that universalism and nationalism are both probably caused by weak close family ties and narrow family trees. If I have twelve brothers to call upon in times of need, why would I want an impersonal state? If I have zero, well, paying taxes for police protection starts to sound very nice. Relatedness is linear, and so the amount of care that one should bestow based on relatedness will probably also scale linearly.
I wonder if the Church's long-standing policy of altering the course of western civilisation by suppressing cousin marriages was the inspiration for the Bene Gesserit.
I agree with this, they saved the west.