It may be, for example, that both are effects of a prior common cause. Causal arguments are often wishful thinking, where the speaker is seeking to prove their case, and hopes (as with other fallacies) that their causal assertion is not challenged.
Civic nationalism is a form of Nationalism that aims to accept all current residents of a nation whatever their race, religion or language. Many, though not all, civic nationalists are liberals.
Assembling a civic nation in Kazakhstan: the nation-building role ... by Jones, Nathan Paul / Caucasian Review of International Affairs. 22) In contrast to Stout's confidence in the. , Emerson laments that America has not yet been discovered.