The Importance of Ancestry — Germany

Germans were asked “How important for citizenship — in your opinion — is having ancestors from this country?” [World Values Survey, 2006]

Several trends here:
#1: In general, the younger are getting less “voelkisch”.

#2: On closer inspection, #1 is true for Upper and Middle brackets, but NOT the Lower.

#3: The Young/Lower grouping is actually more “voelkisch” than its elders of the same class, and is actually the most “voelkisch” grouping of any combination.

Among 100 German Youth Answering “Yes”,
– 12 are Upper-class (20% of overall sample is upper-class)
– 32 are Middle-class (39% overall)
– 56 are Lower-class (41% overall)

Now, 15-20% of Germany-residents are of “migratory-backgrounds”. The study also tracked religion [look for a future post on this], and 4% of the overall youth sample was Muslim. (All said ‘not important’). Immigrants skew towards lower class. If all surveyed Muslims were lower-class, they would represent 11% of the Young/Lower cohort. Likely a similar number of non-Muslims of “migratory background” were picked up in Young/Lower.

So — 36.7% of the Young/Lower bloc answering “Yes” might actually be out of something like ~85% native-Germans polled in that grouping. The data suggests, then, that nearly half of working-class native-Germans born after 1976 reject PC inherited-wisdom and are “voelkisch” to some extent. This is in stark contrast to the upper-classes who have continued the downward slide.
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QUESTIONS
— Why would “voelkisch” attitudes in Germany be so polarized on the basis of class?
— Is this class polarization true in other European countries as well? And the USA?
— What does this mean for the future?