yea, that seems a better way to do it. and regardless you're dealing with such a small percentage of white nationalists and such a selected sample that it can only be suggestive. but i'm really not sure how else you could get any clues, so it seems worthwhile.
-- seth
You can't really tell if they are "social [media] pariahs" unless you compare them to a representative sample. You could control for the average number of likes, and compare that to the average number of friends. Or even better, you could compare them to several groups of users who like other fringe topics (from all parts of the political spectrum) and see if they're significant outliers. In fact, this is going on my idea list. :)