The aims of conservative activists are broadly characterized as anti-state. But an ethnographic case study of a rural activist chapter reveals a range of anti- and pro-state attitudes. Existing concepts for studying the idea people hold of the state, such as the “state effect,” are inadequate for understanding such multidimensional views. To make sense of the chapter’s seemingly contradictory views of the state, I demonstrate how their “state schema” characterizes the three levels of the federal government and a rural-majority 51st state they envision founding as (im)moral and (in)capable.

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国家模式：通过道德和能力看政治

保守派活动家的目标被广泛地描述为反国家。但是，对农村活动家章节的民族志案例研究揭示了一系列反和支持国家的态度。研究人们对国家的看法的现有概念，例如“国家效应”，不足以理解这种多维观点。为了理解本章对国家的看似矛盾的观点，我展示了他们的“国家模式”如何描述联邦政府和他们设想的以农村为主的第 51 个州的三个层次的特征，即（不）道德和（无）能力。