Nations pair naturally with sentiment while states do not.

Evidence

How is it that a citizenry can accrue virtue by sacrificing their lives for nations, but people are killed not by nations but by states? “Nation” and “sentiment” are often treated as an obvious pairing while “state” and “sentiment” are not. How is it that states are commonly viewed as institutional machines that squelch and counter passions, while nations are envisaged as culturally rich producers of them? — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 433

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: why the state-sentiment pairing reads as an oxymoron and what that says about how we theorize political life.
• XREF: connects to: Absent local amplification does not rule out anti-finance sentiment operating through national framing. — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 143