This can get real ugly real quick. It's true that early Scandinavians had tendencies toward democracy. I read a specifically Heathen example in an article on runic healing. If nothing else, I truly believe that my rune articles have at least embodied plain common sense, which it seems is often NOT so common. While some personality traits are highly inheritable, these traits occur in all human populations and there is no evidence at all that any are more widespread in one human group than another.
Culture is learned behavior.
But I digress. Still, our ancestry, both biological and cultural, is a powerful force. Families, cities, and even nations have a collective Wyrd, in which the constituent Wyrds participate. Usually these go together, since most folks are raised by their biological kin. In addition to our genes and family cultural ideas, we usually inherit from our family our religious and political persuasions.