for generations farming the land and randolph mccoy thought that he recognized one of the on lloyd hatfield farm and it must have been stolen from his farm. no one could convince him to drop it. a quite complained to the authorities and organize a trial. mccoy lost the trial and you know that wasn't a great experience for him but he let it roll off and everyone moved on. the problem is the hatfield mccoy's and the many relatives all over the area. for a year and a half after the trial a few of the employee's nephews got into a fight and testified against mccoy in the big trial and they beat the man to death. this is the moment the feud became a high conflict dispute a morphed into an intractable one over therp course of the next decade there was a stabbing vigilante shooting and supreme court case. women were beaten, 80 people got drawn to the feud across the nation. i explained this to say that one of the conditions that reliably lead to high conflict and every case i've looked at are powerful group identities that are made salient by leaders. this is because when we experience collective